-
against the
Maratha Confederacy.
Zamburaks were one of the
royal guard units in the
Qajar Army. A
Persian zamburak regiment was
accompanied by musicians...
- of 500
zamburaks (which were
essentially swivel guns
mounted on the back of camels,
providing light manoeuvrable artillery).
Although zamburaks were extremely...
- much more
manoeuvrable than
their Mughal counterparts, as well as the
zamburaks which provided extra mobile fire power. In
contrast to the
Mughal army's...
-
Maratha Sardar and Shivaji's
childhood friend Suryaji Kakde was
killed by a
Zamburak cannon in the battle.
Chhatrapati Sambhaji son of
Shivaji sta**** with Moropant's...
-
Marathas against the
heavy cavalry,
musketry (jezail) and
mounted artillery (
zamburak) of the
Afghans and the
Rohillas led by
Abdali and
Najib ad-Dawlah. The...
- his
light cavalry wouldn't have been able to do much
against the
Afghan Zamburaks and
Jezails in a
pitched battle. The most
probable outcome would have...
- wing and 10,000 men to the
Afghan centre.
Ahmad Shah also
dispatched his
zamburaks,
inflicting heavy casualties onto the Marathas. A counter-attack was thus...
- with a
gigantic army of 60,000 men
accompanied by
heavy field-guns and
Zamburaks. Trimbakrao, the
Maratha governor of Multan, at the head of 5,000 troops...
- Qizilbash,
showing characteristic red cap (Sa'dabad Palace, Tehran).
Persian Zamburak.
During its
period of
greatest expansion, from the 14th to 17th centuries...
- century, when
advances in
weapons technology finally made it obsolete.
Zamburak was a
specialized form of self-propelled
artillery from the
early modern...
