First Line of Defense

This Stone Marks

The Line of Earthworks

In First Line of Defense

1812 - 1815

Marker can be reached from York Boulevard north of Dundurn Street North.

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Intermediate Line of Confederate Defenses

This cannon marks the intermediate line of

Confederate defenses of Richmond

1862 - 1865

Placed here in 1958 by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

in memory of

Alexander Wilbourne Weddell

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Clovelly Road and Canterbury Road.

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Lines of Defense

Lineas de Defensa

Surrounding defenses made St. Augustine a walled town. From here you can see a reconstructed part of the Cubo Line, the log wall which barred the land approach. It extended from the fort, past the City Gate, to ...

The Ditch as a Second Line of Defense

Around the outside of the central redoubt is the ditch, a significant obstacle attackers would have to climb through to assault the redoubt. At Fort Mill Ridge, the ditch also appears to have been used as a trench from which ...

Second Line of the Confederate Defenses

This cannon

marks the location of

the Second Line of the

Confederate Defenses of Richmond

Placed in 1938 by the City of Richmond

at the request of the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

Marker is on Monument Avenue 0.1 miles west of Roseneath Road, in the median.

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Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses

Through this square ran the southern line of defenses of the British who held Savannah from December 29, 1778 to July 11, 1782. After a seige of 22 days, at dawn of October 9, 1779, the strong western defenses on ...

The First Line of Defense: The Union Skirmish Line

After sunset on September 14, 1862, the Confederate cannons across the road on School House Ridge vanished in the darkness. The features of the landscape began to blur as the shell-shocked Union soldiers on Bolivar Heights wondered if they could ...

Line of Defense

August 27, 1776

Battle of Long Island

175 feet south

Siege of Valley Grove House

150 feet north

Marker is on East Drive, on the right when traveling north.

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Union Line of Defense

Finally aware that great numbers of Confederates were marching on their camps, the Union Sixth Division organized its first line of defense along the ridge in front of you. Henry M. Stanley, a Confederate infantryman, described what it was like ...

Ewell’s Line of Defense

The Confederates Dig In

On Thursday, April 6, 1865, this high ground above Little Sailor’s Creek was protected by troops from the Richmond fortifications under Confederate General Richard S. Ewell. They hurriedly threw up a line of breastworks consisting of fence ...