Photograph as originally submitted to
this page in the Historical Marker Database
www.HMdb.org.
Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2008
Caption:
The North Bastion | Additional Description: North Bastion
Built to protect the long walls of the fort, twin bastions projected from the main earthworks and offered secure vantage points from which troops could provide covering fire.
This bastion and its companion on the Southwest wall of the fort would have each housed six cannons.
Submitted: April 1, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p20368
File Size: 0.145 Megabytes
To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.