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Revolutionary War Cannon

Fairhaven, Massachusetts
· Fort Phoenix
Military
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Taken from the British at Nassau in 1777 by the Colonial ship of war Alfred, this cannon was placed on Fort Phoenix, later recaptured by the British and left on the fort spiked and with its trunnions knocked off, then afterward mounted in Union Street for village defense and placed here in 1883.
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