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 | | I believe these versions at Filipstad are some of these, rather than the longer Canonicus-class variants, and perhaps were available for purchase by Ericsson nearly two years after their casting because by then the Navy had turned to the longer version instead. |
 | | The guns now at Filipstad were thus intended to arm a much larger “gift” for Sweden, her first monitor,the John Ericsson. |
 | | I also took the opportunity of my brief stay in Sweden to go to Filipstad, where Ericsson’s mausoleum, and the 15-inch Dahlgrens, can be seen—each a fitting, forbidding testament to this individual’s place in history. |
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