Featuring a Russian cannon from the 1853-56 Crimean War , another surprising pictorial dispatch from the Irish front by travelling Aeronautical Correspondent Abra .
The cannon , bearing the double eagle and crown of the Romanov family crest, is situated at the Dun Laoghaire East Pier , Dublin , one of nearly 3000 captured during the war, most at the siege of Sebastopol .
Online website says that at the l856 Treaty of Paris, which ended the conflict, it was decided that Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia would receive cannons as trophies of their victory.
Some guns were displayed in towns throughout Britain and Ireland. In Ireland more than 20 towns applied for and received a gun to display .
