Editing Carronade (section)

=== Decline ===
In the 1810s and 1820s, tactics started to place a greater emphasis on the accuracy of long-range gunfire, and less on the weight of a broadside. Indeed, Captain [[David Porter (naval officer)|David Porter]] of [[USS Essex (1799)|USS ''Essex'']] complained when the navy replaced his 12-pounder long guns with 32-pounder carronades.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

In the 1840s, the Royal Navy leased several carronade-armed [[Clipper|clippers]] from [[Jardine, Matheson & Co.]] in 1840 to supplement the steamships it used against [[Qing dynasty]] China during the [[First Opium War]].<ref name=":6" />{{Rp|page=12}}

The carronade was a popular armament among Anglo-American opium traffickers.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Driscoll |first=Mark W. |title=The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection |date=2020 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4780-1121-7 |location=Durham}}</ref>{{Rp|page=11}} Its light weight meant that opium traffickers could maintain both speed and asymmetrical force projection in Asia.<ref name=":6" />{{Rp|pages=11-12}}

The carronade disappeared from the Royal Navy in the 1850s, after improved methods for building cannons had been developed by [[William George Armstrong]] and [[Joseph Whitworth]]. Carronades were nevertheless still used in the [[American Civil War]] in the 1860s.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}  The last known use of a carronade in conflict was during the [[First Boer War]]. In the siege of [[Potchefstroom]], the [[Boers]] used 'Ou Griet', an antique carronade mounted on a wagon axle, against the British fort.<ref>[http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol052dh.html] Major D.D. Hall: The Artillery of the First Anglo-Boer War 1880 – 1881</ref>