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DESCRIPTION OE THREE GUNS FOUND IN THE FORT OF FUTTEHGURH ON 
ITS CAPTURE BY LORD CLYDE IN 1858. 
BY LIEUTENANT H. ¥. L. HIME, R.A. 
When Lord Clyde drove the mutineers from the fort of Euttehgurh,. 
they left behind them a number of their guns. Since that time some of these 
have been melted down in the agency of the fort and the iron applied to 
various purposes in the construction of gun carriages. A few still remain, 
and while quartered at Euttehgurh, I took the dimensions of the three most 
remarkable, with the assistance of Captain M. Currie, R.A., gun carriage 
agent, and Mr Revie, foreman of the agency. 
The first gun is a Bengal Artillery 6-pr., which appears to have been 
abandoned as completely unserviceable, the trunnions and cascable having 
been previously carefully knocked off. The rebels, however, so repaired it 
as to admit of its being again mounted on a carriage and fired. 
The second gun is a built-up wrought-iron gun, entirely of native 
manufacture. 
The third piece of ordnance consists of two wrought-iron guns, of native 
manufacture, fastened together by bands. 
No. 1 Gun. As I have before said, this is a Bengal Artillery 6-pr. 
The trunnions and cascable have been knocked off in the most perfect 
manner, but no attempt appears to have been made to spike the gun, and 
the vent is still in good condition. On examination we found it was loaded, 
as were also Nos. 2 and 3. In order to discover the nature of the charge 
the gun was placed under a monkey which succeeded in breaking it across 
the chase, but the metal of the 1st reinforce resisted all our efforts; and we 
were unwilling to try the usual method of discharging as only a few days 
before a piece, which had remained loaded since the mutiny, had burst and 
killed a bystander. 
On taking possession of this gun the mutineers began operations by 
boring a hole in the spot where the cascable had been knocked off, about 
2*5" long and •75" in diameter. Into this was driven a tightly fitting 
wrought-iron rod about 6*5" long, with a knob at the end. This formed a 
temporary cascable, c , c '. 
The next step was to form trunnions. Eor this purpose two bars of 
wrought-iron t, t ', were bent over and under the gun immediately behind 
the position of the original trunnions (e, e') and fastened in their places by 
pins d,d. The bars are 1" thick by 2" and 2*25" broad. The trunnions 
so formed are consequently 2" thick by 2" and 2‘25" broad : and the length 
of bars originally was such as to admit of the trunnions being about 6" long. 
A section through ff would exactly resemble the section at mn of No. 2 (y), 
with this exception that the ends of the two bars forming the trunnions for 
