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RE Plan No. 20 — Cabul Defences No. 20 Fortifications on the Bemaru Hill

Ground plan, sections and elevations of the military fortifications, erected at the eastern end of the hill, between Fort Onslow and the village of Bemaruh by the Royal Engineers under the command of Lieut.-Col. Æ. Perkins.
[Plan, recto:] Cabul Defences No. 20. / Sherpur Cantonment. / Works Defending N Side Bemaru Village. // Work principally by Lieut. Onslow, R.E., / partly by Lieut. Burn-Murdoch, R.E. / Surveyed & Drawn by Lieut. Childers, R.E. // (Sd). Æ. Perkins, Lieut.-Col., R.E., & Colonel / Commanding R.E., 1st & 2nd Divisions, / Northern Afghanistan Field Force. / Litho. T.C. Press, Roorkee. / No. 1419-9.
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Image No.
RE Plan No. 20
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880 1878-1880
Series
RE 100-115, Confidential Photographs/Plans
Format
Original drawing: 340/430 mm
Quality
Original drawing: faded
Place, date
Kabul, 1880
Descriptors
  • 0101. Kabul City
  • 1.53 City Maps
  • 2.126 Kabul and SE-Afghanistan
  • 4.364 Second A.-A. War (1878-1880)
  • 4.83 Military Installations, Buildings
  • Latitude / Longitude34.545646 / 69.195903
    Google Earth34°32'44" N / 69°11'45" E / 1820 m
    Survey of India MapSheet 38 (1917), Kabul: Sherpur, 2B 26

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