"Yorktown Surrender" British Light Infantry 3-pdr Cannon ~ 1776.
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Known as Lord Townsend's Light Infantry 3-pounder, the first of this new type of light bronze gun was ordered in February 1775 by Lord Townsend, Master General of Ordnance. The gun was intended to be highly mobile to provide close support to infantry on the battlefield. The 3-pounder could be carried on men's shoulders, packed on horses or mules, landed by boat, and rapidly moved by man or beast. It fired an iron round shot weighing 3 lbs. or a bag of musket balls weighing 3lbs. Ammunition was carried in boxes on either side of the gun and a third box between the trails or flasks of the carriage. Two different long poles extended back to allow for hitching a horse in between them. The long poles also gave the gun crew an easy way to move the gun. The light 3-pdr had a number of nicknames: Grasshopper for its tendency to jump when fired, Galloper for when it was towed behind one horse occasionally at a gallop and Butterfly for when it was fitted with long poles for carrying by soldiers. This gun was made by Jan and Pieter Verbruggen, Master Founders at Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, England in 1776. It arrived in America and was used by the British Army during the American Revolution. When General Cornwallis' army surrendered at Yorktown on 17 October, 1781, it was among the artillery pieces taken by the American Army. Shortly afterwards the back of the barrel was inscribed "Surrendered by the Capitulation of Yorktown Oct. 17, 1781".
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