Photos tagged as national_parks

Cape of Good Hope

Cape Point National Park

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Flora

Cape Point National Park

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Cape Point

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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The Path to the Cape of Good Hope

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Self-Portrait

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Where are you from?

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Flora

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Boulders Beach

• Date: 12 March 2008
• Photographer: soupatrvlr: gallery
• Location: South Africa: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Little Roundtop

This is the view of Little Roundtop from near the Wheatfield. It was smaller than I expected.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
• Tags: national_parks civil_war
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Union Cannon

These are lined up on Cemetary Ridge as they would have been during the battle, at the center of the Union Lines during Picket's charge.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Final Battlefield, Union Line

Gar, our tour guide is approaching the low rock wall the Union troups fired from. The small white spot in the center of the tree line is where Gen. Lee watched the final battle unfold. 12,000 Confederate troops attacked across this field, about 200 made it across the rock wall.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Monument at High Mark

The Confederates were aiming for a small grove of tree's here. It is considered the high mark of the final battle and the high mark of the confederacy during the war.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Gen. Armistead Fell

This marker is approximately where Gen. Armistead, one of Picket's Brigade commanders, fell after crossing the low rock wall.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Pennsylvania Memorial

I thought this was a little flashy, then Gar, the tour guide pointed out how many people from PA visited this memorial and were moved to find names of people they knew on it's brass plates. All 34,500 men from PA who fought here are listed, those who were wounded or died are indicated with stars.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, View from Little Roundtop

Even though this is not a very high hill, if the Confederates had taken the hill, their cannon could have reached the entire Union position.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Guide & I

Gar, the tour guide, graciously agreed to pose with me for this picture taken on Little Roundtop.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Big Roundtop Trees

The hill just south of Little Roundtop was undefended and quickly taken by the Confederates. They attacked Little Roundtop, the end of the Union line, from here.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, The Wheatfield

Five or Six charges or counter charges left this field and nearby woods strewn with more than 4,000 dead or wounded.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Devil's Den

The Confederates were successful in taking this area just past Little Roundtop.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Gen. Longstreet

The Confederate General Longstreet was Gen Lee's second in command and reluctantly ordered the charge on Day 3, known as Pickett's Charge.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Gen. Lee

Confederate General Robert E. Lee watched the final battle unfold from about the center of the tree line from which his troops emerged. This statue is considered the most realistic likeness, as it was made from a life mask that had been done of Gen. Lee.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Virginia Memorial Detail

The men depicted represent various occupations who left to join the confederate cause. Left to right, they are a professional man, mechanic, artist, boy, business man, farmer and a youth.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Picketts Charge

This view of the final battlefield is from where Gen. Lee watched. The union line is at the rock wall 3/4 of a mile away.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, Conf. Memorial

There are many statues and memorials around the battlefield. This one was sculpted by Gutzon Borglam, who also carved Mt. Rushmore.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
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Day 71 - Gettysburg NB, 11th MS Regiment

Markers for most of the Confederate units were not added until many years after the war, some only recently. This one is for the 11th Mississippi Regiment. Each marker shows where that unit was during the battle and also faces the direction of their opponent.

• Date: 11 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Gettysburg, USA: gallery
• Tags: national_parks civil_war gettysburg
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