Battle of Saratoga Encampment 2008
Artilleryman of the 2nd Continental Artillery unit touches the linstock, holding a slow burning match at the end, to the priming powder in the vent hole of the cannon, at a Revolutionary War encampment on Bemis Heights, site of a major British defeat in October 1777, Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater, New York, USA.
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