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'''Bronze 9 pounder. D Presgrave, Cossipore (East India Company) 1838/39'''
Produced by the East India Company’s gun foundry at [[Cossipore]] near Calcutta. This cannon was one of a set intended for presentation to Maharaja [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Singh Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] by George Eden, Lord Auckland, and Governor General, on the conclusion of treaty negotiations in 1838. The guns were presented with 200 rounds of shot and shell intended for a planned Anglo-Sikh invasion of Afghanistan.
:''The salute was fired by the howitzers that G. has had made to present to Ranjeet. They are very handsome, ornamented more than our soldiers think becoming, but just what Ranjeet would like; there is the bright star of the Punjab, with Ranjeet’s profile on the gun and Captain E. Says that thousand of Sikhs have been to look at these guns, and all of them salaam to Ranjeet’s picture as if it were himself.''
