[SunkenCiv]

The cannon was 42 inches long and weighed 40 pounds, making it ideal to carry across vast swaths of land as the expedition searched for the seven cities of gold

© International Journal of Historical Archaeology

[know.your.why]

El get some!

El make my dio!

[ansel12]

One of the great male dreams, finding something like that in the American desert, throw in a breast plate and one of those funny helmets and any guy would be in a true fantasy land.

[KrisKrinkle]

“...the cannon that was never fired.”

I find it hard to believe that it was never fired. I find it hard to believe that they would lug it around without even test firing it after it was made.

[Vermont Lt]

“The settlement was attacked by the Sobaipuri O’odham people, marking ‘the earliest, most consequential Native American uprising in the continental US.’“
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Is it really an ‘uprising’ when you attack people invading your land? Sounds more like a counter attack.

[OldHarbor]

weighed 40 pounds, making it ideal to carry across vast swaths of land

I had to laugh. Hopefully it was hauled by a mule. At any rate , someone , possibly the mule, was glad when the gun was left behind.

[kickstart]

Who is going to be arrested and charged for leaving a firearm unattended and without a trigger lock?

[Paal Gulli]

"...Previous research suggested that the first cannons in the continental US were used in colonial Boston during the Revolutionary War...."

That's absolute BULLSPIT. What do they think the French and the British were doing for artillery 20 years earlier in the French & Indian war? In fact there were artillery batteries in the Colonial army comprised of privately-owned pieces abandoned after the French & Indian War (yet some would have us believe the 2nd Amendment doesn't cover cannon).

And the Spanish had cannon in the fortifications in St Augustine in the 17th Century.

So NO, colonial artillery in the Revolutionary War WERE NOT the first.