Helping museum with their cannon

Here's a thread of possible interest on the Company of Military Historians forum-it is safe if you are one of our linkophobes. I wasn't sure of the final answer so I had to ask for help via a 2nd forum.

If link doesn't work for you, reply saying that. I tried but couldn't seem to get any "outsider" link to post.

http://military-historians.org/cgi-bin/member/forum.pl?page=1;md=read;id=14286

 

Just thought I'd let you know it works!

 

Thanks!

 

Interesting read. So that's one of six cannon recovered from the Detroit river?

 

The way I read it the other cannons were from that river, yes, but were recovered at various times and places, and are probably of various types. But I could be wrong. Almost always in the US if multiple items are obtained from one location in one recovery effort, they are kept together. Context, ya know.

 

I guess this is part of the story:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2016/02/16/detroit-river-cannon/80471236/

 

Thanks, I didn't have that info, only what Wil put on the forum. The article is a little off on the weight, which, translating from the hundredweight marks on the cannon, was 1360 lbs. when the piece entered service.