Fieschi's Deadly Cannon

Fieschi's Deadly Cannon

Giuseppe Fieschi's "Infernal Machine," a 25-barreled gun used in an assassination attempt on King Louis Phillippe I in 1835, claimed 18 lives and injured 22 individuals, including Fieschi himself, yet only grazed the King.

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