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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: October 27, 2013
Caption:
Site of Fort Billingsport | Additional Description: The fort at this location was designed by Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, his first engineering assignment from the Continental Congress. It protected Philadelphia for about a month in the fall of 1777 before being taken by the British.
Submitted: October 28, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p259068
File Size: 4.600 Megabytes
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