The Royal Progress through London
Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol, Dover Caste, Dover, Kent. "Load me well and keep me clean, I'll carry my ball to Calais Green.". This artillery piece is a cannon built in 1544 in Utrecht by Jan Tolhuys, before Elizabeth I came to the throne. The gun was presented to Henry VIII by Maximiliaan van Egmond, Count of Buren and Stadtholder of Friesland as a gift for his young daughter Elizabeth. In 1644, the gun saw action at the siege of Hull and the Siege of Sheffield (having been recaptured by the Roundheads)
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11112500
Media ID
46697648
Size
5397px x 3474px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1911
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1544 Caste Defences Dover Elizabethan Elizabeths Sep16
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