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Chart of the battle off Cherbourg.
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Chart of the battle off Cherbourg.

The map charts the course of the two ships in Cherbourg Harbor and in the British Channel off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Made by the British for the Confederacy and captained by Raphael Semmes the C.S.S. Alabama was a blockade runner. Spotted by the U.S.S. Kearsarge, the Alabama was cornered and sunk.

Date
June 14, 1864
Mapmaker / publisher
Sneden, Robert Knox
Place
France
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
1,686 × 2,182 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Chart of the battle off Cherbourg." (June 14, 1864). Sneden, Robert Knox. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_of_the_battle_off_Cherbourg._LOC_gvhs01.vhs00168.jpg

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