Bâton à feu [SEP] country of origin
Bâton à feu
The Bâton à feu, or Baston à feu (French for "Fire stick"), is a type of hand cannon developed in the 14th century in Western Europe. This weapon type corresponds to the portable artillery of the second half of 14th century.
The "Bâton à feu" at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris has an hexagonal cross-section, and looks like a steel tube. It weighs 1.04 kg, and has a length of 18 cm. Its caliber is 2
Artillery of France in the Middle Ages
The artillery of France in the Middle Ages begins only with the fourteenth century, a century in which appears for the first time in Europe a depiction of a cannon, in Walter de Milemete's 1326 "De Nobilitatibus sapientii et prudentiis regum", and in which start to appear small rudimentary weapons such as the pot-de-fer or the portable bâton à feu. At this early stage, cannon would fire either stone balls or metal pellets.
14th-century developments.