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12-pounder gun or 12-pdr, usually denoting a gun which fired a projectile of approximately 12 pounds, may refer to:

• A cannon sized for a 12 pound ball, see Naval artillery in the Age of Sail
• Canon de 12 de Vallière French canon of 1732
• Canon lourd de 12 Gribeauval French heavy cannon of the mid-late 1700s
• Canon de 12 Gribeauval French field cannon of the mid-late 1700s
• Canon obusier de 12 French 12 cm field gun of 1853. Known (incorrectly) in the US as "12 pounder Napoleon"
• RBL 12 pounder 8 cwt Armstrong field gun of 1859
• 12 pounder Whitworth breechloading 2.75-inch (70 mm) field gun of the 1860s
• one of the Dahlgren guns of the American Civil War
• Ordnance BL 12 pounder 7 cwt Field gun, 1885 - 1892
• Ordnance QF 12 pounder 8 cwt Naval landing gun, late 1800s & early 1900s
• Ordnance BL 12 pounder 6 cwt Light field gun, 1894 - 1916
• QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun "Long 12" 1890s - 1940s
• QF 12 pounder 12 cwt AA gun World War I
• QF 12 pounder 18 cwt naval gun 1904 - 1920s
• Erroneously, the QF 3 inch 20 cwt gun^[1]

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