Cannon

Cannon is a projectile-based artillery used since the late medieval era and popularly up until the early 18th century. They were often situated on stone walls, towers, fortresses or ships.
==Ammunition==
A variety of different forms of cannonball were invented during the weapon's period of general use.
Beyond the typical , warships in particular also used , which consisted of two linked cannonballs designed to disable a ship's sails, allowing her to be boarded; , small, packed sacks of ballbearings or slugs similar to a shotgun shell, which were highly effective against a vessel's crew; and s, which were designed to set a ship on fire, and caused significant damage at close range.Assassin's Creed III
==History==
===Song dynasty===
One of the earliest known prototypes of what is now commonly referred to as a cannon were the metal thunderclap cannons (fei yun pi-li pao) of the Song military, which shot out iron bombs at such speed and temperature the projectile would glow red and explode with a massive thunderclap-like boom. Such cannons were used by Song artillerymen during the Song defense of the Mongol invasion.Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan – Chapter 1
===Renaissance Italy===
Sometime in late 1499, Mario Auditore upgraded the arsenal of Monteriggioni by adding mounted cannons to the walls of the town. In anticipation of an attack from the Borgia, or from their long time enemies in Florence, Mario rigorously trained his men in the cannons' use.Assassin's Creed: BrotherhoodAssassin's Creed: Project Legacy
A few days after their installation, Ezio Auditore da Firenze and several of Monteriggioni's mercenaries used the cannons to repel the Borgia forces, after they had begun a siege on the town, destroying many of the French Army's cannons.
Leonardo da Vinci incorporated cannons into his war machines for Cesare Borgia's army, including the tank, the bomber, and the Naval Cannon. The Naval Cannon was a boat capable of launching heated shots at a ship's sails, causing the masts to topple.
===Ottoman Empire===
Cannons were among the war machines used by the Byzantine Templars in their struggle for control of Constantinople with the Ottoman Assassins. The Assassins eventually responded in kind by incorporating cannons into their barricades.Assassin's Creed: Revelations
===Colonial America===
Cannons were used by armies and navies during the struggles for control of North America during the 18th century. Cannons and mortars were placed in forts, and transported on carts to the fields of battle, where they bolstered the firepower of troops using muskets, neutralizing entire platoons at a time if aimed properly.
Also introduced by this century were swivel guns, which were designed to fire beyond the normal range of a naval cannon. A single shot could blow up a ship after barrage had exposed its gunpowder supply, or detonate naval mines. There were also , cannons which fired bombs upwards to fall and detonate on a close range target. Mortar fire was capable of stripping ships of all weaponry.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
==Behind the scenes==
Interestingly, the cannons used in the memory "Vilified" were not present in the memory "Target Practice", even though the first memory took place only a day after the second. 
==Gallery==
Harsh Words PL.jpg|Cannons used in the Defense of Camerino
Fall of Monteriggioni EzioCannon Concept.JPG|Concept art of Ezio firing a cannon
Battle for Bunker hill concept by Gilles Beloiel.png|Concept art of cannons used during the Battle of Bunker Hill
Target Practice 1.png|Mercenaries close by a cannon
ACC China Cannon Render.png|A cannon used in China during the Ming Dynasty
Prizes and Plunder 3.png|Edward Kenway using a swivel cannon
ACIII-Execution_5.png|Haytham Kenway sabotaging a cannon
ACIII-BattleofMonmouth_2.png|A cannon being used during the Battle of Monmouth
The Ghost War Act 1 1.png|The Aquila firing grapeshot at enemy gunboats
ACU. Napoleon cannon.png|Napoleon Bonaparte commanding artillery in the streets of Paris
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II – Battle of Forlì 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations
*Assassin's Creed III
**The Tyranny of King Washington: The Betrayal
**The Tyranny of King Washington: The Redemption
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
**Freedom Cry
*Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
*Assassin's Creed: Pirates
*Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Blackbeard – The Lost Journal
*Assassin's Creed: Rogue
*Assassin's Creed: Unity
*Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan
*Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice
**Creed vs Crows 
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt 
*Echoes of History 
==References==
Category:Weapons
Category:13th century weapons
Category:15th century weapons
Category:16th century weapons
Category:18th century weapons