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A present from us for Scooter.

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:07 am
by Gob
Builders in the old part of the Canadian city of Quebec have unearthed a live cannonball fired by the British during a siege in 1759.

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They posed for photos with the large, 90kg (200lb) projectile, unaware that it was still potentially explosive.

Army bomb disposal experts later collected the device, saying there was still a danger, CBC reports.

The British besieged Quebec while fighting the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40618547