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Artillery in Quebec

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:05 am
by rufrdr
We visited Quebec in September and came across some interesting artillery and history there.

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A group of cannon on the promenade, at least one appearing to be a prize gun from the Crimean war and marked with the Imperial Russian symbol

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A mortar displayed in a memorial park near one of the city gates

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On a memorial with the mortar

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In old Quebec: the highwater mark of the attack on Quebec in a driving snow by Benedict Arnold in 1775.

Re: Artillery in Quebec

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:08 am
by rufrdr
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Bonus picture: a cannon tube buried in a yard on Cape Breton Island at Sydney Harbor. It may have been used as a hitching post at one time in the distant past. I saw similar buried cannon tubes in the Caribbean on various islands.