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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: September 5, 2008
Caption: Original Approach Trench Marker
Additional Description: The Americans "appear to be advancing by regular approaches, working very industriously..." Cruger reported to Lord Francis Rawdon, the British commander in Charleston.

Cruger and his men watched the American tranches inch closer to the fort. Occasionally raids from the garrison were launched to harass and disrupt. Kosciuszko's sappers, but the American progress was relentless.

The approach trenches ran generally perpendicular to the Star Fort and allowed Patriot troops to move closer to it. The sappers and the assault troops were protected by the angles of the approach trenches and by gabions set along the edge of the trench.
Submitted: September 7, 2008, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34766
File Size: 2.517 Megabytes

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