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Photo 487(48)
- Record Id:
- 040-003094319
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003094271
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025910244.0x000d16
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145068255.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 487(48)
- Title:
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Western end Dakka Fort, looking towards Khurd Khyber. Photographer: Burke, John
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
General view of interior of fort, with mountains beyond. 'One mile to the west of the village stands an old fort, built in 1876 by Amir Sher Ali but now (1905) in ruins and unoccupied. The fort is rectangular, about 400 yards by 500, with walls 15 feet high. It has a circular bastion at each corner and three semi-circular bastions on each face. It stands close to the right bank of the river and on the opposite bank, at a distance of 1,300 yards from the north-east corner of the fort, is the town of Lalpura. The interior of the fort is completely commanded by the low spurs of the hills to the north-west and south-west within 400 yards. The fort was occupied by us during the second Afghan war, the normal garrison being 2 guns, 1 company British Infantry, 1 squadron, Native Cavalry, and 1 battalion, Native Infantry. The place proved most unhealthy to our troops, pneumonia being the most fatal disease. No opposition was offered to out occupation of the place which is of some importance owing to its position opposite Lalpura and to its being at the junction of several routes from the Peshawar valley' (Gazetteer of Afghanistan, part IV, p.97, Calcutta, 1910). No. 48 in Burke catalogue of Afghan War views.
Subjects = forts; military (general); military campaigns
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003094271
040-003094319 - Is part of:
- Photo 487 : Afghan War 1878-79. Peshawur Valley Field Force. J. Burke. Photographer(s): Burke, John
Photo 487(48) : Western end Dakka Fort, looking towards Khurd Khyber. Photographer: Burke, John - Hierarchy:
- 032-003094271[0048]/040-003094319
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 487
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145068255.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1878
- End Date:
- 1878
- Date Range:
- 1878
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Former External References:
- 48
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known