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Sunday Apr 9, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
April 9, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Mars Education Center at Fort Ticonderoga
The cost is $10 per person and payable at the door; Members of Fort Ticonderoga are admitted at no cost.
Rich Strum
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"Gribeauval's Guns: French Artillery Reforms from Montcalm to Napoleon" Matthew Keagle, Curator Following the French and Indian War, the French artillery went through the most radical changes in its history. The reforms of General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval transformed the way French cannon were designed, made, and operated. Learn how artillery doctrine changed from Montcalm’s sieges to Napoleon’s battles and tour Fort Ticonderoga’s collection of 18th-century French artillery, which contains some of the earliest surviving examples of Gribeauval’s cannon. The Fort Fever series highlight Fort Ticonderoga’s history, collections, landscape, and the latest research conducted by museum staff.
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