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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 19706, member: 54"]One item he might want to check in the "additional images" links is lot 1402,</p><p>Spanish mortar dated 1750. I researched that one for 30 years on and off. I wondered why the Spanish didn't take it with them when they left East Florida in 1821. When I found the original treaty in the Lib, of Cong., it showed that the US required them to leave certain listed items, and that mortar is listed in the treaty. It took longer to find out precisely when/how the US Navy acquired it, and I had to look thru the ship logs of the whole fleet that Dupont had at Fernandina FL in 1862, and the very last ship's log I looked thru had the info., which, like the treaty info, is pictured in the images at the link.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 19706, member: 54"]One item he might want to check in the "additional images" links is lot 1402, Spanish mortar dated 1750. I researched that one for 30 years on and off. I wondered why the Spanish didn't take it with them when they left East Florida in 1821. When I found the original treaty in the Lib, of Cong., it showed that the US required them to leave certain listed items, and that mortar is listed in the treaty. It took longer to find out precisely when/how the US Navy acquired it, and I had to look thru the ship logs of the whole fleet that Dupont had at Fernandina FL in 1862, and the very last ship's log I looked thru had the info., which, like the treaty info, is pictured in the images at the link.[/QUOTE]
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