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Field artillery guns of this type were used to limit access to Delaware Bay, with four placed at Fort Miles and four more at Cape May, New Jersey. Mounted on concrete pads called Panama Mounts, they had a wider firing range, and several of these mounts still stand near the parking lot north of the main Cape Henlopen Beach Bathhouse. The guns at Fort Miles were placed in Battery 22. One of the guns used at Fort Miles required an 18-man crew to load and fire it, fired projectiles weighing 125 pounds with a 60-pound powder charge, had a firing range of 10 miles, and was used primarily as an anti-ship weapon.
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