Cast in Strasburg in 1758, this gun was sent by Louis XV, King of France, to Canada for the defense of Quebec. After Quebec surrendered the following year, the British took the gun, but the French recaptured it in April 1760 and the British retook it in May. In the fall of 1775, it helped repel the Continental force under General Richard Montgomery, who was mortally wounded while trying to capture it. In June 1779, Sir Henry Clinton captured Stony Point, and a month later General Anthony Wayne retook it and found the gun among the trophies. General Washington then presented the piece to troops from Elizabethtown who had served as a reserve, and they brought it here soon afterward.
