INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The First Battle of Panipat was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodi Empire, which took place on 21 April 1526 in North India. It marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowderfirearms and field artillery.

Detailed explanation-2: -It Was the first battle of Panipat, 1526, that the Moghul Emperor Babur first used the artillery in North India-when he decisively defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the Afghan kings of Delhi.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first documented battlefield use of gunpowder artillery took place on 29 January 1132, when Song General Han Shizhong used huochong to capture a city in Fujian. The world’s earliest known hand cannon is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated 1288, which was found in Mongol-held Manchuria.

Detailed explanation-4: -The French artillery opened fire first, followed by the Bengali guns. The British guns returned fire.

Detailed explanation-5: -Babur deployed guns capable of firing cannonballs weighing between 225 and 315 pounds against a 1527 siege, and had previously employed a cannon capable of firing a 540-pound stone ball.