2-913-565 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Interior of the Fort of Chanak-Kalessi, on the Asiatic Side of the Dardanelles - sketched by Lieutenant M. O'Reilly, 1854. Cannon and soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. 'There are altogether in the fort 102 guns. The diameter of the shot is thirty-six inches; length of carriage and gun, thirty feet; length of gun, fifteen feet: the several guns were cast at Bagdad. The gun in the foreground is that which struck the Windsor Castle, 76, in passing up the Dardanelles with Sir John Duckworth'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.