A "small football-sized" cannonball thought to have been fired during the English Civil War has been found wedged in a wall. It was discovered during repair work at Castle Cornet in Guernsey.

This cannon-ball was fired from Castle Cornet ... As a result, during the English Civil War the castle became a Royalist stronghold. Guernsey itself, however, supported the Parliamentarians.

But what separates the Battle of Black Jack from others is it was the first armed skirmish between pro- and anti-slavery forces and lit the fuse on what would become the Civil War. Much has been ...

A woman was magnet fishing by Swift Creek in Colonial Heights when she pulled in something completely unexpected — a live Civil War-era cannonball. A woman was magnet fishing by Swift Creek in ...