Heated shot or hot shot is round shot that is heated before firing from muzzle-loading cannons, for the purpose of setting fire to enemy warships, buildings...

the cannonball could be heated to red hot. This was called a "heated shot". (On the shot called "the single deadliest cannon shot in American history",...

hotshots, or hot shot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hotshot or Hotshots or Hot Shot or Hot Shots may refer to: Heated shot, a heated projectile fired...

type of artillery ammunition similar to canister shots but with explosive submunitions Heated shot Field artillery in the American Civil War Miller,...

Spider shot was a variation of chain shot with multiple chains. Round shot Heated shot Canister shot Grapeshot Duck, B. (2010). Shipwrecks of the Dominican...

hulls, or spars and set fire to the enemy ship. Heated shot Shore forts sometimes heated iron shot red-hot in a special furnace before loading it (with...

(and the difficulty of heating and transporting the red-hot shot aboard ship), heated shot was seldom used from ship-mounted cannon, as the danger to the...

other applications for which small lead balls are useful. In a shot tower, lead is heated until molten, then dropped through a copper sieve high in the...

fortifications under construction and capturing three cannons. Over 200 heated shot a day were hurled into the city, and several large howitzers were brought...

target. It was used by the Royal Navy between 1860 and 1869, replacing heated shot as an anti-ship, incendiary projectile. Two patterns of incendiary shell...