Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 23, 1792
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 23 Jan 1792
Additional Source Text:
Also listed in New-York Daily Gazette, 28 Jan 1792 and Argus (Boston), 10 Feb 1792; General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 20 Jan 1792
Notes:
During the English Civil War the city of Bristol fell to Royalist forces in July 1643. Two years later the Parliamentary New Model Army recaptured it following a siege in August-September 1645. Brandon Hill Fort, eighteen-feet square and eighteen-feet high, was one of four defensive forts built on the western and northern outskirts of the city by Parliamentary forces prior to the first, Royalist, siege.
