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- Title
Britain's Crimean War Trophy Guns: The Case of Ludlow and the Marches.
- Authors
Bartlett, Roger; Payne, Roy
- Abstract
Many of the numerous monumental cannon which adorn British cities are Crimean War trophies: something little discussed in the historiography of the war. Focusing on the trophy cannon at Ludlow, in the Welsh Marches, the article looks at both the national and the local scene. It describes first the Allied operation in Sevastopol to gather prize Russian cannon and their removal to England. The utility of shipping the guns home and the uses to which they might be put were both controversial, but whether intact or melted down the cannon formed a significant part of the multifarious memorials and mementos generated by the war and Allied victory. The focus then switches to the Marches and the acquisition of trophy guns by Ludlow and neighbouring towns; the political background to Ludlow's application for a cannon is also explored, and the subsequent fate of the region's prize guns. Finally the article examines the origins of the Ludlow cannon and the identity of its founder, a British expatriate ironmaster working in Russia at the turn of the eighteenth century.
- Subjects
LUDLOW (England); UNITED Kingdom; CRIMEAN War, 1853-1856; ORDNANCE; CONFISCATIONS; MEMORIALS; ENEMY property; LUDLOW Castle (Ludlow, England); 19TH century British military history; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
History, 2014, Vol 99, Issue 337, p652
- ISSN
0018-2648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-229X.12068