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Manuscripts
Design to fortify St. George's Island at Halifax [cartographic material]
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- Description
- Manuscript plan showing proposed fortifications on St. Georges Island at the start of the French and Indian War. Includes 4 insets showing profiles and detailed elevations for various galleries and ramparts.
- Date
- approximately 1755
- Call number
- mssHM 15416
- Provenance
- Purchased from Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 93, No. 308, 1924.
- Dimensions
- 52 x 40 cm
- Associated people
- Kashnor, Leon, (1880-1955,)
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