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Tag: 1758

Bombshell from Louisbourg

March 9, 2021November 12, 2022 Gordon Harris1 Comment

Mounted securely to a stone post at the corner of Middle and Independent Streets in Newburyport, there was for many years a large cast-iron bombshell, thrown from a mortar at the Second Siege of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia in 1758.

Posted in Places, Revolutionary War, StoriesTagged 1758, Newburyport, war
Ipswich MA historic photos by William Varrel

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