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Post by bebut on Jul 30, 2018 0:00:49 GMT
In the Santamaria Park, 2 blocks from the Santamaria Museum in Alajuela, CR. Made in France 1886. .
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Post by bluetrain on Jul 30, 2018 12:46:27 GMT
Incredibly, those models were still in use by the French in WWI, although they had more modern artillery. In war, everything is in short supply. Some artillery without recoil systems was used by Finland during the Winter War even though they were long obsolete by then.
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Post by bebut on Jul 31, 2018 0:18:42 GMT
I'll see you one and raise you three! These were at the museum but I didn't see any identification or origin.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jul 31, 2018 3:06:15 GMT
Has it ever been used to kill any dinosaurs?
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Post by bluetrain on Jul 31, 2018 12:03:46 GMT
Here's a story about cannons.
Once upon a time there was a gun shop in Alexandria, Virginia, at Zero Prince Street (the building used to be over the river and technically in Maryland). It was called Hunter's Haven, I think, and also used to advertise in gun magazines as "Ye Olde Hunter," or something like that. It's gone now but one of the sons of the original owner still has a surplus business elsewhere in town. Anyway, they sold guns. And they had cannons, too.
I was down there one Saturday morning and while waiting for the shop to open, I looked at the cannons sitting around the lot. At least one, a 75mm German infantry howitzer, still had a working breechblock. Most of the others were rusted shut. There was an Italian anti-tank gun and two French 25mm anti-tank guns. All of them were from WWII. I noticed that one of the French guns had the name and date of manufacture (about two months before the Germans invaded) inscribed in a flowing script that the French often used on weapons. I thought it was interesting and decided that the next time I was there, I'd make a rubbing of the name. Well, the next time I was there, they had all been sold, all to one man. And then there were no more cannons.
By the way, Interarmco was located on the next block but they were not related in ownership.
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Post by pgandy on Jul 31, 2018 13:19:09 GMT
So those are the cannons. Nice photos and thanks for sharing. I'll hop a bus one morning and pay the museum a visit. I hope that you had a safe return trip. Hazel asked about you this morning.
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Post by bebut on Jul 31, 2018 19:42:50 GMT
Thank you, i just got home a couple hours ago. I have more pictures and now I can edit them better with a full-sized computer screen.
Yes, these canons look almost old enough to have shot dinosaurs. There was no documentation on them, but if they were around in 1856 I'm sure they would have been pressed into service.
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Post by pgandy on Aug 3, 2018 2:53:05 GMT
There was no documentation on them, but if they were around in 1856 I'm sure they would have been pressed into service. 1856, to most Americans that has no significance. That is the year Costa Rica beat the invading Americans forces, something the US history books omit. That’s the only war Costa Rica has had, except for a few minor border disputes. The last was settled just recently by the International Court but not until after there was small arms fire across the San Juan River at times. Costa Rica won that one too.
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Post by pellius on Aug 4, 2018 16:15:50 GMT
Are you referring to this? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_WarI agree with you that, in US public education, the historic time between the War of 1812 (generally billed as the second revolutionary war) and 1860 Civil War is poorly defined. To be fair, the nation itself was poorly defined politically, culturally and legally. Best I can tell from internet sources, the forces fighting Costa Rica were not US military forces, though some were US persons. Am I mistaken? Per the internet, it looks like the primary belligerent against Costa Rica, William Walker, surrendered to the US Navy. Not inciting politics. Just interested.
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Post by pgandy on Aug 4, 2018 19:09:13 GMT
That’s the one. The US went to war with Mexico after it look like Texas, a former Mexican state taken of by Americans who decided they didn’t want to live under Mexican law, independence was at stake and didn’t want to lose that land which it had a future eye on. After the war the US got greedy and grabbed much of northern Mexico which an issue. As if that wasn’t enough the US made another land grab but as they couldn’t legally do so in an official manner backed mercenaries to do so on their behalf. The group led by William Walker invaded Mexico again, the third time, and “liberated” two more states Sonora and Baja California. These became the Republic of Sonora.
Walker then turned his forces south, invaded and overthrew Nicaragua with the backing of the US Congress mostly from the members of the southern states who wanted Central America for their slave trading. After toppling Nicaragua he turned south with the intent of adding Costa Rica to his list.
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Post by pgandy on Aug 4, 2018 20:07:25 GMT
A photo of filibusters, the original file was too large to load. Filibusters 3.pdf (860.79 KB) An after thought. I decided that possibly Wikipedia would like a copy but I couldn’t figure out how to upload it. I got as far as signing in. Anybody know?
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