Talk:Explosive/@comment-38926561-20190612233549/@comment-30076690-20190614170745

... aaand it's wrong

yes, howitzer came to define the current form of artillery cannon around the first world war, but howitzers as an in-between for the cannon and mortar existed in the 17th century and earlier.

and it's not exclusively a supersized cannon - though there are multiple instances of extremely large howitzer cannons which did, in fact, require such loading techniques.