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Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« on: March 05, 2011, 05:58:51 PM »
This bronze Spanish beauty was cast as a smoothbore in 1794; it was rifled at a later date, and it was taken as a trophy gun during the Spanish-American war.

http://ctmonuments.net/2009/08/spanish-american-war-monument-bridgeport/

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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2011, 06:43:49 PM »
Beauty!
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2011, 02:38:04 AM »
It is a beauty!
Why do you suppose it is sitting level?  It can only be resting on something.  I don't think someone would use tight cap squares to immobilize a public display gun.
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2011, 03:05:00 AM »
Quote from: Zulu on March 06, 2011, 02:38:04 AM
It is a beauty!
Why do you suppose it is sitting level?  It can only be resting on something.  I don't think someone would use tight cap squares to immobilize a public display gun.
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Looks like a small crossmember about halfway down the curve.  You can see the bolt head on the side.  Nice barrel.
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2011, 03:13:48 AM »
If you look at this image from the article, you can see it better. 
http://ctmonuments.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/P1170260.JPG

Good eye, Mike!
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2011, 03:39:22 AM »
Nice clean lines on that one ,very nice ! 8)
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2011, 04:23:27 AM »
It's a shame they didn't photograph the engraving but it looks like the crest of Carols the IV
the name of the gun would be nice to know which is engraved near the muzzle nice looking
cannon just wish they knew what photo's to take....
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2011, 02:34:22 PM »
It is the cypher of Charles/Carlos IV of Spain who ruled from 1788 to 1808, Allen. This is a photo of the cypher as it appears on a bronze 12-pounder on display in Leutze Park, Washington Naval Yard.

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This information on the cannon displayed at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT was obtained from "The Chief of Ordnance Report of 1901."
"Detailed description of the captured Spanish cannon distributed to the several States under orders of the Secretary of War dated July 1, 1899."

Bronze 4.8-inch Muzzle Loading Rifle
On base ring No. 3559  Sevilla, 13 de Deciembre de 1794
On surface of piece, Reinforce: "IV."
On surface of piece, Chase: "Labadaco."
On left trunnion: "Cobre de Mexico y Riotinto."
On right trunnion: "P  3600."

Labadaco is the name the piece was given, but I haven't had any luck trying to translate it to English.

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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 10:24:05 AM »
I think that I've just about exhausted the possibility of finding any other translating site on the net, so it looks like "Labadaco" is going to remain a mystery. This seems to be one of those cases where the name the gun was given is a Spanish slang term.

The "Cobre de Mexico y Riotinto" marked on the left trunnion face, records where the copper used to cast the gun was mined; in this case the copper (cobre) came from Mexico and an ancient copper mining site located along the Rio Tinto, a river in southern Spain.

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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2011, 01:08:12 PM »
Labadaco is a word from one of the  Philippine dialects
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2011, 03:25:59 PM »
I love that one picture of it aiming out in the water during the sunset..
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 03:48:25 PM »
http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?s=Labadaco.  No match found!

http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?s=laba.  labŽa ­ maglaba, labhŽan (mag-:-an) v. to wash clothes, to launder. Lab- han mo ang mga damit. Wash the clothes.

http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?s=daco.   No match found!

http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?s=dako dŽako' n. spot, place

 Labadaco a spot to wash the clothes.



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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2011, 04:03:31 PM »
Lavadora--the washer.
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2011, 08:54:20 PM »
Douglas,

I don't think the Spanish would have used a conquered native people's indigenous language from any of their colonies to name one of their artillery pieces, that just wasn't in their mindset. They came to impose their language, faith, laws, and will upon those cultures that they conquered; and let's be honest about it, they generally didn't show much regard for those peoples way of life. At least I don't recall ever seeing a Spanish gun named that way, not even a gun from a colonial foundry, let alone one cast by a foundry in Seville. 
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Re: Beautiful bronze Spanish cannon located in Bridgeport, CT
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2011, 01:04:26 AM »
Actually  I think you you are right. But it led me to what I think it is  lavadora, the washer or cleanser in Spanish.
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