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Gun Crew at Jockey Hollow Encampment

By the late 18th century, artillerymen were considered elite troops. In an age of widespread illiteracy, soldiers who could do the geometric calculations necessary to place a cannonball on target must have seemed almost as wizards.

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Uploaded on August 23, 2024
Taken on April 22, 2013