The British Army designed this gun as a highly portable infantry support weapon. This example, long known as the "Burgoyne Cannon," was first captured by American forces at the Battle of Saratoga (1777) during the American Revolution. The U.S. Army utilized it until the gun went back into British hands following the fall of Detroit in 1812. In 1813, Colonel Richard M. Johnson's Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Rifles recaptured it from the British at the Battle of the Thames. The gun was presented to Governor Issac Shelby and has remained here in Frankfort since the end of that campaign.

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