Description: Explanation of diagram. A, Fort Schuyler; b, southwest bastion, three guns; c, northwest bastion, four guns; d, northeast bastion, three guns; e, southeast bastion, four guns; g, laboratory; h, barracks; I, Horn-works begun; K, covered way; L, glacis; M, sally-port; N, officers' quarters; O, Willett's attack. 1, a battery of three guns; 2, bomb battery, foour mortars; 3, bomb battery of three guns; 4 redoubts to cover the batteries; 5. line of approaches; 6, British encampment; 7, Loyalists; 8, Indians; 9, ruins of Fort Newport. — Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution Vol. 1, 1851
Source: Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution Vol. I (New York, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851) 249
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