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A Coehorn /ˈkoʊhɔːrn/ (also spelled cohorn) is a lightweight mortar originally designed by Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn. Van Coehoorn came...

gases when fired. The Coehorn mortar gained quick popularity, necessitating a new form of naval ship, the bomb vessel. Mortars played a significant role...

British Trench Mortar Batteries in the First World War". Retrieved 26 February 2023 – via The long, long trail. Forty ancient Coehorn mortars, firing spherical...

target. The 13-inch seacoast mortar could be expected to be more accurate. (Abbot 1867, p. 39) Coehorn mortars were lighter mortars, designed to be brought...

Heavy mortars are large-calibre mortars designed to fire a relatively heavy shell on a high angle trajectory. Such weapons have a relatively short range...

Highlanders were without targes to protect from bayonets). However, Coehorn mortar shelling and devastating enfilade musket fire from the deeply echeloned...

guns (smooth), one 24-pounder F. D. howitzer (smooth), one 24-pounder Coehorn mortar. Magazines, two; dry and in good condition. Ammunition, full supply...

titled Ancient Armour which refers to a tinker's mortar. Another account refers to a hand mortar as a coehorn, and attributes its invention to a Dutch engineer...

carried by rail or ship to travel any distance. The Coehorn mortar however was a type of small mortar light enough to be carried by four men. This made...

Yorkers. With them were Brant's Volunteers, and a contingent of Seneca. A coehorn mortar, a 3-pound "grasshopper" and ten Royal Artillery soldiers also accompanied...

British Trench Mortar Batteries in the First World War". Retrieved 26 February 2023 – via The long, long trail. Forty ancient Coehorn mortars, firing spherical...

kinds of shot: round iron and canister. The other weapon used was the Coehorn mortar. These had a calibre of 4+2⁄5 inches (11 cm). Captain-General: Duke...

by sea, while Joseph Wightman's force of around 1,000 men with four Coehorn mortars advanced towards Glen Shiel. On 9 June, they reached Loch Cluanie,...

It was used during both battles and sieges. For several centuries Coehorn mortars were fired indirectly because their fixed elevation meant range was...

Union artillery bombarded the Confederates with a battery of eight Coehorn mortars; the Confederates responded by depressing the trail of a 24-pound howitzer...

gunners switched to canister shot, which was augmented by fire from the coehorn mortars situated behind the government front line. As there was no need for...

six-pounder Armstrongs, two 24-pounder howitzers, two eight-inch mortars, and six Coehorn mortars.[citation needed] According to accounts by Hēni Te Kiri Karamū...

10 September.: 478  A third battery of six 18-pounder guns and 12 Coehorn mortars was set up near the old Custom House less than 200 yards (180 m) from...

field howitzers, four 24-pounder siege, two Parrotts, one Coehorn mortar, one 10-inch mortar. Magazines, two; dry and in good order. Ammunition, full supply...

the crown of a hill, was defended by 75 imperial soldiers and two Coehorn mortars. Atiawa Māori viewed the construction of the outpost on their land...