RE 104 — Fortification B on Koh-e Sher Darwaza
In the centre of the picture is the British fortification B, built on the highest part of the crest over the mountain Koh-e Sher Darwaza. The photograph was taken near point C, looking SE, along the NE side of the wall and the slope descending in direction to the old city.
Part of the ‘General Plan No. 1’, showing the location of the fortifications A, B, C and D on the ridge of the mountain
Plan No. 8 shows fort “B” on the highest point of the mountain Koh-e Sher Darwaza; the arrow indicates, from which direction photograph RE 104 was taken
In the centre of the picture is the British fortification B, built on the highest part of the crest over the mountain Koh-e Sher Darwaza. The photograph was taken near point C, looking SE, along the NE side of the wall and the slope descending in direction to the old city.
[Album:] Photo. No. 14. / Fort “B” on the Shahr-i-Darwaza. / Looking back at the Fort (2 Company’s Works Drawing No. 8) from the first of the small advanced posts.
[S&M List:] 2-60 Fort, Sher Derwaza.
- Original:
Chatham: Cabul Defences, Photo No. 14, “Green Album”, No. J1 6/256 - Collection Cabul Defences, Plans No. 1, 8 and No. 9
- Not in the albums of the usual RE Collections.
Image No.
RE 104
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880 1878-1880
Series
RE 100-115, Confidential Photographs/Plans
Format
Albumen paper with gold toning, 205/280 mm, on brittle, brown paper with printed captions
Quality
good
Place, date
Kabul, 1879/80
Descriptors
Latitude / Longitude34.501990 / 69.168702
Google Earth34°30'02" N / 69°10'15" E / 2190 m
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Survey of India MapSheet 38 (1917), Kabul: Kabul, 2B 26
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