Manuel Gómez → Gov. Solá — the 1820 Fort San Joaquín collapse report (= expanded Document 7): only 8 cannons, 2 unserviceable (12-pdr's mounting & pitted bore; 8-pdr's ball jams for lack of a *rasador*); gunner's tools broken; 2 cannons at the landing-point unusable for lack of platform planking, emplaced 'in sand'; not a single veteran artilleryman (the rest too ailing to drill); had to destroy cartridge-boxes to sew sacking; little grapeshot, 'only round shot'; a ship sighted near the port at 6 PM as he wrote
| Date | 1820-03-20 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | San Francisco |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | XX |
| Original tomo page | i.1110–1113 |
| Savage copy page | 261–263 |
| Scan leaf | n260–n262 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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