Lions Clubs International is marketing a Kargil war memento: a model of an artillery gun made from the shell casing of an 155-mm howitzer.
Heavy artillery shelling and machine gun firing were heard and seen over the Homs neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, she said.
Demolition experts rigged C-4 to piles of deadly RPGs, 120 mm artillery shells, machine gun rounds and advised families to leave.
They were nevertheless defeated at El Caney and the San Juan Heights, in engagements in which decisive parts were played by artillery, the Gatling gun (an early machinegun) and three regiments of black Americans.
The daily soundtrack is the thud of government artillery, the crackle of gun fire.
The guns were fired by the Arbroath-based 212 Highland Battery of 105 (V) Regiment Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, augmented by the gun troop of the Glasgow and Strathclyde University Officers Training Corps.
On the day of the funeral, the coffin will travel by hearse from Westminster to a Royal Air Force chapel, where it will be transferred to a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery.
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Lady Thatcher's coffin is to be carried in a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, which was involved in the rehearsal.
The Army said the World War I gun was the largest surviving of all the UK's artillery pieces and one of only 12 surviving in the world.
Thatcher, the longest-serving British prime minister of the last century, will travel to the 300-year-old cathedral on a gun carriage drawn by horses from the King's Troop of the Artillery, according to the government.
The gun carriage was drawn by six horses from the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
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