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Although they were familiar with and carried firearms, they do not seem to have used them much. The early Qajar army used artillery in the form of Falcon-sized shotguns. It carried the wasp (a war ball weighing one pound) and was mounted on a rotating axis on a camel’s back. When the battle was fought only during the summer, the troops marched mostly at night with torches and music. Their march averaged six miles a day, but in exceptional circumstances, they could double that distance.
