"The bell arrived in Philadelphia on September 1, 1752, but was not hung until March 10, 1753, on which day Isaac Norris wrote, "I had the mortification to hear that it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper without any other viollence [sic] as it was hung up to try the sound." Please read this very interesting retelling of the tortured history of The Liberty bell. But first, a word about Napoleon. --------------------------------------------------------- I am here in Italy (Psalm118) doing archive research. Serendipity had her way with me, when I ran into this archived report from Dec 17, 1804....