Poorly written article. I am reading along just fine and the when I get here:
““The first one we found, I thought, there’s no way in the world we just found a cannonball from 190 years ago,” Kolby Lanham, the Alamo’s senior researcher and historian, said in a statement. “And then fast forward just a couple of months, and we found a second one. It’s just a huge kind of once-in-a-lifetime deal—but obviously it’s happened twice.” “
Then I confused. Which ones were Texan and with ones were Mexican? Did they find 2 the first time. And then two again. Or did they find one and then the other. Or some other combo. Very poor writing.
I think they found two, with the Texan one found later.
I wonder why they were so close to each other? How did cannonballs explode? Or were these solid balls? I wonder if a Texan picked up a Mexican cannonball and thought perhaps it could be used in his cannon? Or a Mexican dropped his after they had taken over the Alamo.