South Redoubt

One of the fortifications

built in 1776 – 1777 to

defend the highlands,

stood on the hill to

the north, above here.

New York State Department of Education 1932

Replaced by Putnam County Historian 2001

Marker is on Cat Rock Road (New York Route 403) east of ...

Redoubt Number 3

(Front)

Redoubt Number 3, built here in 1861-62, was one of six identical Confederate earthworks built across the enter of James Island, known collectively as the East Lines. Intended to help defend Charleston from Federal attacks up the Stono River, ...

Redoubt 1

Engineers Debate the Williamsburg Line

Because Lt. Col. Benjamin S. Ewell had made little progress on the Williamsburg defenses by late June 1861, Gen. John B. Magruder, commanding the Army of the Peninsula, replaced him with Gen. Lafayette McLaws. Capt. Alfred ...

Redoubt 12

Hancock the Superb

You are near the northern end of the Confederate defensive line built in 1861 to protect the eastern approach to Richmond. The “Williamsburg Line” stretched between the James and York rivers and consisted of fourteen forts, commonly called ...

The Great Redoubt

Capture of the Breymann Redoubt forced Burgoyne to withdraw his army to a position centered on three fortifications shown on this map drawn by a British officer.

This is the site of the eastern wall of the second of these ...

The River Redoubts

On these bluffs the British constructed three redoubts to protect their artillery park and hospital, located on the river flats below.

Marker is on Park Tour Road, on the right when traveling east.

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