The Great Cannonade

The Battle of Monmouth

28 June, 1778

1:15 PM – 5:30 PM

“… Shot and Shells flying as thick as Hail.”

Major General Nathanael Greene

For several long, hot and exhausting hours during the afternoon of June 28, 1778, the largest land artillery ...

Combs Hill Cannonade

During the early afternoon, the Continental and British Armies were stalemated as they cannonaded each other across Spotswood Middle Brook. Major General Green then appeared on this hill with four artillery pieces and began bombarding the British. Caught in a ...

Civil War Cannons

This is one of at least seven known gun positions at Fort Mulligan (note the depression in the angle), which would have dominated the crossroads at Petersburg and its ford on the South Branch of the Potomac River. Confederate General ...

Cannons

Grim Weapons of War

Confederate artillery was posted here. The cannons were placed behind protective earthworks, still faintly visible today. Their fire swept the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike below.

Model 1841 6-pounder field guns were used at Camp Laurel Hill. Although nearly obsolete by ...

Newton Cannon

0.7 mile. The grave of this combat veteran and statesman is on the land to which his father, a Revolutionary veteran, brought his family from North Carolina in 1791. In addition to his distinguished military record, he was twice a ...

Cannon Point - California Volunteers Memorial

Dedicated

To the memory of

Company K

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6th Regiment

California Volunteers

May 27, 1863 – May 27, 1931

Marker is on State Highway 49, on the right when traveling east.

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This Cannon

This cannon of the type used in the defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812, presented to St. John's College, the alma mater of Francis Scott Key, through the Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter, D.A.R., and the National Star-Spangled ...

Cannon Hill

The hilltop area located above and to the right of where you are standing is Cannon Hill. In April 1863, the cannons located there defended Rowlesburg and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad during a Civil War skirmish.

The B&O Railroad crossed ...

The Griffen Cannon and Memorial

The Griffen Cannon

One of 1400 guns made at Phoenix Iron

Company Shops between 1860 and 1865.

Invented by John Griffen

These 3 inch wrought iron rifled field

pieces served the Union forces with great

merit during the Civil ...

These Two Cannons

These two cannons were formerly mounted in front of the U.S. Naval Reserve Building on Front Street. Originally they were part of the Confederate defense system at Battery White near Georgetown.

Marker is on Front Street near Orange Street.

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