The Gun Author:C. S. Forester "The gun. It was thirteen feet long, two feet in diameter at the breech, one foot at the muzzle, ornamented with blazonry and heraldic traceries... It stood, crazily balanced on one wheel, where the Spanish soldiers had abandoned it, in their terrible retreat before Napoleon's armies. The brave mountaineer men and women of the partisan forces di... more »dn't know how to load, aim or fire it. But they knew that across the icy mountains and the hot plains lay the walled city of La Merced, citadel of French power. The cannon could breach those walls..."« less