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Big Guns

Big Guns

October 25, 2003

Here is National Park Ranger Lee (I think that was his name) discussing the emplacement of Civil War-era cannons. These cannons had an accurate range of one-mile. Combined with similar cannons in Castle Clinton in what is now Battery Park, lower Manhattan and the waterways north, were well-protected.

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