Captain Pouch
1.  Matross No. 1  - Sponges & Rams
2.  Gun Corporal  - Sights & points piece
3.  Gunner No.2   - Fires the piece
4.  Gunner No. 1  - Tends & primes vent
5.  Matross No. 5 - Shifts trail

Arrived Quebec. Canada, 17 Sept. 1776. Principal engagements: Lake Champlain at Valcour Island ''76. Ticonderoga, Hubbardton,  Bennington,  Freeman's Farm, Semis Heights. Saratoga.  Gun crews of 6 pounders of the period generally consisted of (1) Sergeant (gun chief), (1) corporal (gun pointer), (2) gunners (vent tender and firer) and from (6) to (12) matrosses (cannoneers). Each numbered matross had specific positions, duties and equipment or tools. The higher numbered men were used primarily to maneuver the piece by means of drag ropes and bricoles (stout leather shoulder slings with rings, ropes and honks). The gun in this plate has been unlimbered, rolled into position, sponged, loaded, rammed and the vent primed. The gun corporal is sighting for direction through notches at muzzle and breech, getting deflection by calling for "trail right" or "left," and elevating or depressing for range by hand manipulation of the smallest of three quoins (wedges) under the breech ring. The gun shown is one of four, cast in France - surrendered to the British at Quebec, 13 Sept. 1751 mounted on English type carriages and issued to the Hesse-Hanau Artillery in the winter of l776 - recaptured by the Americans at Bennington, 16 Aug. 1777 recaptured by the British at Detroit, 16 Aug. 1812 - and finally recaptured by the Americans at Fort George on the Niagara, 27 May 1813.