Photos tagged as forts

Day_101_-_Fort Macon, 6 Pound_Cannon

This is an 1841 6 Pound Cannon, the smallest sized cannon used in the Civil War. A seven man gun crew operated it.

• Date: 11 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Day_101_-_Fort Macon, Laundress Diorama

Army regulations allowed hiring up to four laundresses per company. These were often the wives of enlisted men or civilian women who lived near the fort. At Fort Macon, the pay was $1 per month per soldier plus a food ration.

• Date: 11 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Day_101_-_Fort Macon, Aerial_Photo

This gives you an idea how the fort was laid out, with both an outter and inner wall.

• Date: 11 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Four Legged Friends

Outside the Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Courtyard

Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Jalis Prayers

Fatehpur Sikri, Tomb of Shaikh Salim Chishti - prayers are sent up from countless visitors when they tie yarn to the Jalis

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Rosey Haven

Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Dargah Mosque

Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Hathi Pol (Elephant Gate)

Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Dargah Mosque

Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Caravanserai

Fatehpur Sikri

• Date: 9 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Āgra, India: gallery
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Ellie ride to the Top

Amber Fort

• Date: 7 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Jaipur, India: gallery
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Jaigarh Ramparts

• Date: 6 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Jaipur, India: gallery
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Jaigarh

• Date: 6 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Jaipur, India: gallery
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Jaigarh

• Date: 6 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Jaipur, India: gallery
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Jaigarh

• Date: 6 November 2007
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: Jaipur, India: gallery
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Ranthambore Fort

in Ranthambhore National Park, India

• Date: 25 October 2007
• Photographer: jennrob: gallery
• Location: India: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Knox, Entrance

This Fort Knox is NOT the one with all the gold in it, it is in Kentucky. However, this was named after the same General, Henry Knox who was America's first Secretary of War and Commander of the Artillery during the Revolutionary War.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Pownall Info

This was a British Fort built near the entrance to the Penobscot River in 1759. It may be hard to understand the photo of the site without the diagram. If you can't read the detailed description and want to be able to do so, let me know, I can send you closeup's.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Pownall, Maine

The British built this Fort at the entrance to the Penobscot River in 1759.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Knox, Mom & Lichen

Most people visit old forts to see the gun emplacements and such. Mom prefered the Lichen.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Know, D Battery

This also shows how the Fort overlooked the town of Buckport Maine, to protect it and Bangor from any attack by water. The brick chimney at the lower left is from a 'hot shot' oven, used to heat cannon balls to burn through wood ship hulls.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Knox, Casemate and Staircase

The Casemate was a large, enclosed space for cannon to fire through a wall opening. All US Forts built between 1816 and 1867 had at least one level of casemates.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA: gallery
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Day 46 - Fort Knox, Rodman Cannon

It took eight men to fire each of the 23, 10 inch Rodman Cannons used on the main casement level. The cannon balls (Shells) weigh about 100 pounds each.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA: gallery
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Day 20 - Fort Michilimackinac, Town Lady

The re-enactors at this replica of a 1715 British Fort at the north end of the Lower Peninsula, MI really help explain how it was to live back then.

• Date: 21 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Mackinaw City, USA: gallery
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