A small, portable mortar or cannon used in siege warfare, typically mounted on a stand or carried by soldiers.
Named after Baron Menno van Coehoorn (1641-1704), a Dutch military engineer and fortification expert who designed or improved this type of siege weapon.
Military technology often gets named after the engineers who perfected them—the 'coehorn' is named after a Dutch genius of fortification whose innovations made him one of the most celebrated military minds of the 17th century, yet few people know his name today.
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