These guns, which Rochambeau took back to Vendome, were requisitioned in 1792.
Immense supplies of all kinds were requisitioned for the armies, and were sometimes allowed to rot unused.
The brackets and mounting plates will need to be separately requisitioned.
The range of sites is very wide and extends to requisitioned houses, Q sites, airfields and factories.
After the Cloptons, the house saw a succession of owners and tenants before being requisitioned by the Army in the Second World War.
