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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 9558030, member: 54&quot;]One thing I need to consider is whether the cannon on display in Texas could have come from the Philippines.&nbsp; Hundreds if not thousands of bronze cannons of similar size came to US via soldiers fighting there between about 1898-1906,&nbsp; The Philippine Army actually goes back to at least 1735, at first manned with Spaniards, and gradually transitioned to Filipinos.&nbsp; Its language was Spanish until about 1900.&nbsp; I’m kind of filling in between a very few things I’ve read so I could be wrong.&nbsp; But I’d like to consider the possibility of the Philippines as a source of the Texas cannon as well as its inscription.&nbsp; I’m having a little trouble getting started with info on the Spanish-speaking Philippine Army 1735-1898.&nbsp; Most everything I find re Philippine Army says it only dates from 1935, when it was “officially” formed.&nbsp; I’d love to find a listing of Sargento-Mayor for say Siglo XIX (19th C.) and search it for the donor named on the cannon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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