Featured Cannon captured in 1904

In the Philippines, 1898-1906 or so, the US fought the Spanish, then the Filipinos, then the Moro tribes in that order. I've had this Lantaka (traditional cannon of many Countries in Asian Pacific area) for maybe 20 yeas but didn't have much of the background info on the circumstances of its capture until a few days ago when a web search turned up what I'd been missing. I'd searched the web for the same info in past years but then it just wasn't there.

http://1-22infantry.org/history3/taraca.htm

The capture inscription on it is hard to read as camouflaged by the bronze patina, but it says words to he effect: "Captured by Det. 17th. Artillery at Rogan River, Mindinao, April 9th 1904."

This link goes to a fairly thorough rundown of the brief expedition on which it was captured. There are a number of places in it describing the US Army troops being fired upon by " Lantacas" and the capture of Lantacas is mentioned as well.

The primary differences between this Lantaka and all others I've seen include

1. This bears a capture inscription
2. The small muzzle flare, certainly to enable aiming
3. The pintle shaft is bent due to recoil from firing projectiles
4. The vent ("touch hole") is eroded and larger than normal due to much firing.






This is the only Lantaka I've found that has a capture inscription, and having one is better than none, but I'd like to have two more in case you acquire one and don't know what to do with it.

 

Yeah, I just run into a lot of these at yard sales on Cape Cod! You never know, though.

 

Naïve question but curiosity is killing me: can you actually fire some of these old cannons, and where in the world would you go to do it, please?

 

OMG. You obviously haven't seen Spring & his crazy friends shooting off cannons on YouTube!!

 

Let me rephrase that into proper English....Spring & his crazy friends on YouTube videos shooting off cannons.

 

Oh, I want to!!!!!!
What's he called on YouTube, please????
I saw him shoot a machine gun thing a while back but I forget how I found that... off a link here, I think.
Help?

 

Am "Cannonmn" on you-tube, I think there are 338 videos uploaded now. I have some playlists on my channel according to subject matter, like

Cannon shooting

Gun shows

Museum tours

Will post link or two later.

 

Correcting error

 

On my wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy... thanks!

 

It says PAGE NOT AVAILABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Try this one

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU90SZmWDH_BBhXKJXi88HuO0AiY9E9qz

 

Or this one

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU90SZmWDH_DP5pLd-iB-UrrTmL_dBJ_U

Sorry a bad link got posted earlier

 

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