Photographs of
Fort Anne
Bronze Cannon

Cast bronze


Fort Anne Historic Site
Annapolis Royal
Annapolis County
Nova Scotia

Fort Anne is Canada's oldest national historic site.
It was declared a Dominion (federal) park in 1917.

GPS location:   44°44'31"N   65°31'08"W




Fort Anne bronze cannon


Fort Anne bronze cannon


Fort Anne bronze cannon
This cannon is named LA RUGISSANT, "The Roaring One".
Bronze Guns of Leutze Park
Washington Navy Yard

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons.html

Close up of name LE VIGOUREUX (The Vigorous One) on a French bronze cannon
    http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons43.html


Close up of name LE BELLIQUEUX (The Warlike One) on a French bronze cannon
    http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons41.html


Close up of name EL TOSICO (The Poisonous One) on a Spanish bronze cannon
    http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons12.html
Artillery Through the Ages
A Short Illustrated History of Cannon...

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/source/is3/is3c1.htm

The cannon of the late 1600s (and well into the 1700s) was an ornate masterpiece
of the foundryman's art, covered with escutcheons, floral relief, scrolls, and
heavy moldings...

Many guns were personalized with names cast in raised letters on the gun.
Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, has a 4-pounder "San Marcos,"
and, indeed, saints' names were not uncommon on Spanish ordnance.

Other typical names were El Espanto (The Terror), El Destrozo (The Destroyer),
El Toro (The Bull), and El Belicoso (The Quarrelsome One).


ULTIMA RATIO REGUM
The inscription Ultima ratio regum, "the last argument of kings," was
widely used on European ordinance during this age of royal absolutism.

Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons.html


Fort Anne bronze cannon


Fort Anne bronze cannon
The decorative lifting handles were often cast in the shape of stylized dolphins.
The centerline of the trunnions was placed slightly ahead of the center of gravity of the gun.
The handles were placed so that the lifting point was slightly behind the trunnion centerline.


The first reinforce bears the famous device
of the "Sun King", Louis XIV
with his motto, NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR.
"Not unequal to many" was Louis' roundabout way of
describing himself as a match for any number of adversaries.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons.html
Fort Anne bronze cannon


Tha above photographs were taken on 13 June 2003.


Other Old Cannons in Nova Scotia





Bronze

Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin commonly used in
18th and 19th century artillery. Often mistakenly called brass.

Brass versus Bronze

BRASS: An alloy composed of copper and zinc
and not suitable for ordnance.

BRONZE: An alloy composed of copper and tin
and definitely suitable for ordnance.

Bronze

A metal made of two or more pure metals (pure chemical elements),
mixed and melted together, is called an alloy.

Any alloy, or mixture, of copper and tin is called bronze.
Many bronze alloys also contain small amounts of other materials.

Bronze was one of the first alloys developed by metal workers
in ancient times. The Mesopotamians ushered in the Age of Bronze
about 4500 years ago. In the earliest fortified towns bronze was
used for shields, helmets, and battle axes.

4000 years ago the Chinese made early coins of bronze.

Bronze melts at a lower temperature than iron, reducing the
manufacturing cost. Bronze is softer and weaker than iron,
but bronze resists corrosion (especially seawater corrosion)
and metal fatigue better than iron. Because it does not rust,
bronze was preferred aboard ship or in seacoast forts.

Originally "bronze" was a term for copper alloys having
tin as the only or principal alloying element. In modern usage the
name "Bronze" is seldom used alone, and a term such as
"Phosphor Bronze" or "Aluminum Bronze" is used for
identifying alloys of copper and tin with small amounts of other
elements added to produce special characteristics.

Brass or Bronze?

As we prepare almost every issue of The Artilleryman Magazine
the confusion of "brass" and "bronze" comes up in things
written in an earlier time period when the terminology was
incorrect, or by modern writers who don't know the difference.

We recently came across this in Harold L. Peterson's
Round Shot and Rammers (Bonanza Books, 1969):

"In almost all the contemporary [18th and early 19th centuries]
references the term used is brass. Bronze is almost never mentioned.
Yet the alloy itself sometimes consisted only of copper and tin,
which would make it bronze according to a modern definition..."

The only brass guns were those made by the uninformed.
All surviving antique cannon of a copper-based alloy are
in fact "bronze." The actual definition of "gun metal" was
90 percent copper and 10 percent tin, which was the
strongest of the various bronze alloys.

— Submitted by Bill Anderson, 1st Continental Artillery

Online source: Brass or Bronze? — The NWTA Spy, Spring 2000
    http://www.nwta.com/Spy/spring00/brass.html
The Wayback Machine has archived copies of:
Brass or Bronze? by Bill Anderson

Archived: 2001 August 22
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822224002/http://www.nwta.com/Spy/spring00/brass.html

Archived: 2002 June 02
http://web.archive.org/web/20020602101910/http://www.nwta.com/Spy/spring00/brass.html

Archived: 2003 April 04
http://web.archive.org/web/20030404101023/http://nwta.com/Spy/spring00/brass.html

Archived: 2004 February 25
http://web.archive.org/web/20040225051123/http://nwta.com/Spy/spring00/brass.html






Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
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Monument: Poutrincourt's 1607 Mill Poutrincourt's 1607 Mill monument LeQuille
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/lequille.html


Arthur Kennedy tombstone Arthur Kennedy tombstone LeQuille
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/kennedyja.html


Rawding Captains monument Rawding Captains monument Clementsport
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/rawdingm.html


Annapolis Iron Mining Company monument Annapolis Iron Mining Company monument Clementsport
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/annironm.html


Clementsport war memorial Clementsport war memorial Clementsport
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/clemport.html


Clementsvale war memorial Clementsvale war memorial Clementsvale
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/clemvalem.html


Loyalist Park cannons Loyalist Park cannons Digby
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/digbyparkcann.html


Bear River war memorial Bear River war memorial Bear River
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bearriverm.html


Smiths Cove war memorial Smiths Cove war memorial Smiths Cove
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/smithscovem.html


Bloody Creek monument Monument: Bloody Creek 1757 Bloody Creek
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bloodycrk.html


1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express monument 1849 Nova Scotia Pony Express Monument Victoria Beach
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/ponyexmon.html


Port Royal Habitation 1605-1613 Port Royal Habitation 1605-1613 Port Royal
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/portroyal.html


Scotch Fort 1629 monument Scotch Fort 1629-1632 monument Port Royal
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/scotchfort.html


Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Plan Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1940-1945 Middleton
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bcatpww2.html


Kingston: Commonwealth Air Training Plan memorial Commonwealth Air Training Plan memorial, 1940-1945 Kingston
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/bcatprc.html


Bridgetown war memorial Bridgetown war memorial Bridgetown
    http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bridgetownm.html


Bay View cannons Bay View cannons Bay View
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/bayviewcann.html


S.S. Princess Louise monument S.S. Princess Louise monument Point Prim
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/prlouisemon.html


Rossway war memorial Rossway war memorial Rossway
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/rosswaymon.html


Little River war memorial Little River war memorial Little River
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/littleriver.html


Tiverton war memorial Tiverton war memorial Tiverton
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Freeport war memorial Freeport war memorial Freeport
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/freeportm.html


Westport war memorial Westport war memorial Westport
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/westportm.html


Westport Joshua Slocum memorial Joshua Slocum memorial Westport
    http://ns1763.ca/digbyco/slocumjmem.html



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