The Chavonnes Cannon Battery Museum celebrates its 295th Birthday

Cannon Firing
At 3pm on Saturday 20th March 2010, the Chavonnes Cannon Battery Museum on the Waterfront’s Clock Tower Square will give Capetonians a loud, smoky and noisy taste of 18th-Century warfare by firing a two-gun salute from our muzzle-loading cannons as a slightly belated Birthday celebration. "Captain Jack Sparrow would have loved it!"
On 20 February 1715 Cape Governor Maurice Pasque de Chavonnes laid the foundation-stone of the battery which would later bear his name — the first true coastal gun battery at the Cape, and the first of a chain of batteries which would make the Cape Peninsula one of the most heavily fortified places in Africa. Continued
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