Picture No | 10182309 |
Date | 30 July 1864 |
Description | BATTLE OF THE CRATER |
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Burnside blasts an immense breach - the crater - in Petersburg's defences, but fails to follow through and what should have been a great victory turns into defeat.
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Source | Engraving from a painting by J A Elder, in the Century magazine |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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