Long Cecil
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Long Cecil is a cannon built in the workshops of the De Beers mining company in Kimberley for use by the British in the Siege of Kimberley during the Second Boer War.
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Barrel and breech blueprints
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Siege of Kimberley
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The siege of Kimberley took place during the Second Boer War at Kimberley, Cape Colony, when Boer forces from the Orange Free State and the Transvaal besieged the diamond mining town. The Boers moved
Long Cecil
…Long Cecil is a cannon built in the workshops of the De Beers mining company in Kimberley for use by the British in the Siege of Kimberley during the Second Boer War. The defenders at Kimberley had only the relatively small RML 2.5 inch Mountain Gun at their disposal and therefore lacked…
British RML 2.5-inch mountain gun employed in the defence of Kimberley during the Second Boer War
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Soup ration ticket from the siege of Kimberley