All Early Modern Grenades and Petards

Small explosive devices of the early gunpowder era, thrown by hand or fixed to gates and walls to blow them open. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a grenade, petard or small bomb. It excludes artillery shells and mines. Early grenades were iron spheres filled with powder and lit with a fuse, thrown by specially chosen grenadiers, while the petard was a metal cone of powder fixed to a gate by engineers who had to light it and run.