File:Fort Severn battery 1846.jpg
"Fort Severn and dummy ship's battery for great gun target practice, 1846"
An engraving of a small small expanse of water bounded by a shoreline in the background and the main scene on a shore in the foreground, where we see a low circular building with a gabled door, near it a room-sized building with a chimney, possibly an oven or kiln, and on the right, under the shade of a tall tree, a wall-less frame box on a slightly raised platform, in which four guns on mounts can be dimly seen. A two-man rowboat and two small sailboats on the water complete the scene. It is a dummy ship's battery for target practice at the United States Naval Academy, in 1846; the circular building is the main part of Fort Severn.
Source: "The Founding of the Naval Academy by Bancroft and Buchanan", in United States Naval Institute Proceedings 61:1386 (1935)
Bill Thayer (talk) 14:27 July 13, 2021
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