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Russian Guns

Photograph at the Russian Guns plaque

These Russian Guns captured on the 9th day of Sept A.D. 1885 by the victorious arms of her Majesty and her allies in the fortress of Sebastopol were presented to the Mayor and Corporation on the Borough of Warrington by Her Majesty's Government as a memorial of the sufferings and the triumphs of the British Army in the Crimea.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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