If you were going to steal a cannon, how would you do it? Cannons, after all, are not generally associated with larceny. For starters, they’re hard to fence or pawn. But the real question when it ...

This cannon was probably a small swivel gun, largely used on ships. Lewis and Clark were equipped with one on their expedition west in 1804-06. At the end of the War of 1812 a cannon was fired in ...

A story in the Newark Advocate, published March 26, 1908, stated that U.S. Rep. William Ashbrook introduced a bill to authorize the secretary of war to provide Newark with a cannon for the Grand Army ...