Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, Virginia
The map shows a close up drawing of Fort Lyon located on Eagle Hill in Alexandria, Virginia. Shows the fort's defenses, including abatis, ditches, salients, sally port, and bomb proof.
- Date
- 1861
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Sneden, Robert Knox
- Place
- Virginia
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,203 × 2,656 pixels
Public domainsafest
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.
Credit line
"Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, Virginia" (1861). Sneden, Robert Knox. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Lyon,_near_Alexandria,_Virginia_LOC_gvhs01.vhs00285.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 313.
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