The Turkish Sultan has given to the British Government, in exchange for two. large Armstrong guns, a monster gun,, twelve feet long, thirty to thirty-six inchea in exterior diameter, and weighing from, twelve to fifteen tons. Its chief value is, its historical one, being one of the pieces, of ordnance used in the memorable seige of Constantinople, by Mahomet 11., in the.
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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 354, 21 April 1868, Page 2
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