Meet George, the Six-Pounder

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Rocky Mountain Christian Academy

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 2022

Eighth grade students from Rocky Mountain Christian Academy enjoyed a special collections viewing featuring several library and museum items as well as a hands-on visit with “George,” a cannon cast in 1777 by James Byers in Philadelphia, P.A. This six-pounder is on loan from the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina. No more than ten marked American made bronze cannons from the war are known. South Carolina Society member William Marshall created highly accurate reproduction artillery tools and ammunition to accompany “George” to show Anderson House visitors, especially school children, how cannon teams operated and how cooperation and coordination were key components to the success of the Continental Army.

Read more about “George,” and the reproduction artillery tools, at: https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/new-education-project-takes-aim-at-revolutionary-war-artillery/.
 

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Bunkers Hill or America’s Head Dress

Mary Darly

London: M. Darly, [1776]

The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection

Published on the first anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, this pro-American satire depicts a great military battle taking place in a fashionable woman’s enormously tall coiffure, complete with ships, marching soldiers, cannon, flags and tents.

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Field epaulets and sword knot

Probably American

Late 18th century

The Society of the Cincinnati, Museum purchase with funds donated by the New York State Society of the Cincinnati and The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Fund, 1991

Hamilton is said to have worn this pair of field epaulets and sword knot—a device for securing a sword to an officer’s hand——during the Revolutionary War.

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Powder horn

Roxbury, Mass.

1775

Gift of John Sanderson du Mont, New York State Society of the Cincinnati, 1994

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Cannonballs and grapeshot

18th century

Acquired by gifts and purchases, 1975-2016