Dum Dum Arsenal
Dum-Dum Arsenal was a British military facility located near the town of Dum Dum (near Calcutta) in modern West Bengal, India.[1]
The arsenal was at the center of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 regarding suspicion that cartridges distributed at the arsenal were greased with pig and cow fat.[2]
It was at this arsenal that Captain Neville Bertie-Clay developed the so-called "Dum-dum bullet" (Mark IV cartridge), an exposed-nose bullet designed to mushroom in flesh. This was the first expanding bullet for military use, later banned from use in warfare by the Hague Convention.
On 7 December 1908, a serious explosion occurred by accident at the Dum-Dum arsenal, resulting in death or serious injury to about 50 native workmen.[3]
References
- ^ "DUM-DUM CARTRIDGES" (PDF). The New York Times. January 4, 1886.
- ^ Charles Henry H. Wright, John Lovering Cooke (1873). Memoir of John Lovering Cooke, with a sketch of the Indian mutiny of 1857-58. Oxford University. p. 29.
- ^ "Dum Dum". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009.This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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