maxim-nordenfeldt

Updated: May 11, 2025

Maxim-Nordenfeldt automatic recoil guns used at the battle of the Atbara. The latter cannon, however, only used cordite, whereas the 5-inch howitzer shells are filled with a picric compound resembling M. Turpin's melinite. For over ten years Russia has had 100-lb. howitzer batteries in the field, firing high explosives.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan