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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 135529, member: 44"]Spring, I haven't any help on your cannon, but I certainly enjoy reading your informative postings! First of all I didn't even know what a trunnion was, nevermind a trunnionless cannon. After doing a little research on what trunnions on cannons are, I googled a bit coming up with your pics and postings here and somewhere else. The only trunnionless anything I found that interested me was that the cannon or cannons at the Alamo were presumably trunnionless. </p><p><a href="http://www.johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=845" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=845" rel="nofollow">http://www.johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=845</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This raised the question for me, where did the Alamo get their cannon(s)? Were they Mexican or transported wayyyy down there from the USA?</p><p><br /></p><p>1. If they were Mexican, were they originally from Spain? If from Spain, were they cast in Spain or could they have originated in France under Napoleon?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Were they left over from the early attempts of the French to colonize Texas (17th century - early 19th century? </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_Texas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_Texas" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_Texas</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I know this really has very little relationship to your query, but my curiosity got the better of me.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 135529, member: 44"]Spring, I haven't any help on your cannon, but I certainly enjoy reading your informative postings! First of all I didn't even know what a trunnion was, nevermind a trunnionless cannon. After doing a little research on what trunnions on cannons are, I googled a bit coming up with your pics and postings here and somewhere else. The only trunnionless anything I found that interested me was that the cannon or cannons at the Alamo were presumably trunnionless. [URL]http://www.johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=845[/URL] This raised the question for me, where did the Alamo get their cannon(s)? Were they Mexican or transported wayyyy down there from the USA? 1. If they were Mexican, were they originally from Spain? If from Spain, were they cast in Spain or could they have originated in France under Napoleon? 2. Were they left over from the early attempts of the French to colonize Texas (17th century - early 19th century? [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_Texas[/URL] I know this really has very little relationship to your query, but my curiosity got the better of me. --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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