The Battery (Charleston)

Crisp Map of Charleston in 1711, where A, E, D, C, and B are the Granville, Ashley, Colleton, Carteret, and Craven Bastions respectively, and I is Johnson's Half Moon, and G is another Half Moon. The stream to the immediate south is Vanderhorst Creek, now Water Street, with White Point to the south.
Two ten-inch Columbiads at the South Battery guard Charleston Harbor (1863)
Closeup of a Columbiad at South Battery (1863)

The Battery is a landmark defensive seawall and promenade in Charleston, South Carolina. Named for a pre-Civil War coastal defense artillery battery originally built by the British at the site, it stretches along the lower shores of the Charleston peninsula, bordered by the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, which meet here to form Charleston Harbor.


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