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During the Battle of Monmouth, Commander-in-Chief George Washington watched approvingly as Captain Francis Proctor’s artillery company cannonaded the British, and Joseph Plumb Martin noted that a 4-pounder “kept up a constant fire upon the enemy.” Later, Major-General Lord Stirling recalled that British infantry appeared in the rear of Sutfin’s, with some advancing to the front of the orchard, where they were driven back with grape and canister shot. Battlefield archaeologists established the orchard’s precise location from a concentration of lead canister shot and 2-ounce iron grape shot, and the probable location of Molly Hays’ cannon is here, where four pieces of 2-ounce grape shot appear to be the remains of a cartridge broken by Proctor’s gun crew.
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