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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 21, 2008
Caption: Japanese 36-pounder Bronze Gun
Additional Description: From the plaque below the gun:
This gun was part of the armament of the batteries guarding the Shimonoseki Straits, bombarded and silenced on 5-6 September 1864, by an allied naval squadron which included the chartered American armed steamer Ta Kiang. This operation is credited with ending a growing anti-foreign movement in western Japan. The prominent bases for front and rear sights, of particular importance for long-ranged seacoast gunnery, are unusual.
Submitted: August 11, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p31293
File Size: 1.576 Megabytes

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