Mons Meg

Huge cannon, made of bars of wrought iron hooped together, used by the Scotch at the siege of Dumbar IMG:content-1420.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1421.jpg:[graphic] James Monroe. Livings ton, of the purchase of Louisiana 1803; Minister to England 1803-7; Sec. of State 1811-17, and of War 1814-15: Pres. 1817-25. Florida was acquired 1819, and the Mi ouri Compromise adopted 1820. Mons Meg, Edinburgh Castle. ton 1489. The gun was constructed under the auspices of James II. of Scotland and named Mons after the blacksmith who cast it and Meg after his wife. It is 13 ft. 34 in. long, 27 in. in diameter at the mouth, the bore being 20 in. Chandler's Encyclopedia