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Lost Cannon Found After 250 Years | Montpelier News
After 250 years at the bottom of Lake Champlain, the final piece of a Revolutionary War cannon from the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island has been recovered — a dramatic find that closes a 25-year search. Using advanced remote sensing, researchers from Texas A&M located the fragment buried under four feet of mud, exactly where the blast would have sent it. Remarkably preserved by the lake’s cold, dark waters and clay, the piece matched a 3D model from a fragment found decades earlier. Now, it’ll undergo conservation and be reunited with other cannon parts at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum —…
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