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Caption: Marker detail: Shot furnace
Additional Description: 1 • A soldier loaded cannonballs (shot) into the furnace.
Un soldado metía balas en el hornillo.

2 • Cannonballs heated up to about 1500° F as they rolled over the fire.
Las balas se calentaban hasta 815° C al rodar sobre el fuego.

3 • Two soldiers carried red-hot iron shot to nearby cannons.
Dos soldados cargaban una bala de hierro al rojo vivo a los cañones cercanos.
Submitted: December 15, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p457252
File Size: 2.234 Megabytes

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