black-powdered

Updated: September 27, 2025

But beyond that, and approaching within a few hundred yards of the extreme horn of the position, is scrub, which ought to have been cut down. Out of this scrub the enemy began to snipe. We had there, tucked into folds of the hills, a couple of tubby old black-powdered howitzers, and they let fly three rounds which should have been very effective.

G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens - From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War