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Medieval cannon were artillery. A canon is different, and there is a link below to a related question on what the canon was.

Cannon were usually welded together from iron bars, or, if they were small, cast of bronze. The big ones were fairly effective siege weapons, as they could shoot boulders to knock down castle walls. Among the small ones were hand cannons and swivel guns.

An interesting early cannon was the petard, which was actually more like a bomb, but was classed as a cannon. It was loaded with a few pounds of powder, bound to the end of a pole, the fuse lighted, and then it was placed against a door that the attacker wanted demolished. A person who was not careful (so the idea goes) could get his clothes stuck to the petard's binding and be "hoisted on his own petard," to be blown up by his own work.

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