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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: October 24, 2010
Caption: Detail from the Marker
Additional Description: Drawing of the chain and its log floats stretched across the Hudson River at Fort Montgomery, January 7, 1777. After the British destroyed the Fort Montgomery chain, the Americans created an even bigger chain at West Point, which was never challenged by the enemy. Courtesy of the West Point Museum Collection, United States Military Academy.
Submitted: October 30, 2010, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p134124
File Size: 0.095 Megabytes

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