RE Plan No. 22 — Cabul Defences No. 22 Sherpur Cantonment
Section through the military fortification on the southern and western side of the cantonment, this wall around Sherpur was erected by the Afghans at the time of Amir Sher Ali Khan and reinforced by British troops in 1879/80.
[Plan, recto:] Cabul Defences No. 22 / Sherpur Cantonments. / Section of Barrack and Main Wall. // 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. 1419-28.
- Cabul Defences, Photo-No. 21 gives an impression of this construction
- Collection Royal Engineers, Photo-No. RE 078
- Mitford, R.C.W. (1880): To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade, p. 119, description of Sherpur defences: “The side facing south, towards the city, is formed of a range of flat-roofed barracks, with staircases between every two barracks on to the roof, on the outer edge of which is a parapet six feet high, with a banquette to fire from; in front of this runs a ditch, dry now, twenty feet wide, and then comes the outer defence, a mud wall sixteen feet high, broken at intervals by large semi-circular bastions with three gun-embrasures in each, a very narrow banquette running some five feet below the crest.”
Image No.
RE Plan No. 22
Collection
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive 1878-1880 1878-1880
Series
RE 100-115, Confidential Photographs/Plans
Format
Original drawing: 215/340 mm
Quality
Original drawing: good
Place, date
Kabul, 1880
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