VERY RARE - REVOLUTIONARY WAR CANNONBALL, DUG GEORGIA
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This is another item from the artillery collection I recently acquired, it is an 8 pounder solid shot cannonball. Although most items in the collection were Civil War, this type of ball, which was dug in Georgia, would probably be from the Revolutionary War. Southernmost of the 13 colonies, Georgia was invaded by British troops in 1778, eventually losing most of the state. In 1781, the tide turned and Georgians began to win back their homeland. I n field battles, artillery played an important, but not dominating role. Many Generals favored having artillery more for the moral boost it gave their own men, rather than for the devastation it caused the enemy. Artillery of the Revolutionary War period was uniformly smoothbore and muzzle loading. The lack of rifling meant that cannons were relatively imprecise at long range. Artillery size is normally given by the weight of the round ball it fired, ranging from siege guns firing 24 pound balls, to light guns firing 3 or 4 pound balls. The guns normally used on the battlefields of the Revolution ranged from 8 pounders, the biggest commonly seen, to the more common 3 and 4 pounders. This ball is in nice condition for being over 200 years old, t is some pitting to the iron, as seen in the pictures, but it is very solid, without any flaking. It also has been coated for preservation. I am listing
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