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This ground lay along the British defensive line during the 1779 Siege of Savannah; the nearby Spring Hill redoubt was the focus of the doomed allied assault that killed Sergeant Jasper and Count Pulaski and cost roughly a thousand casualties.
Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses is a historical marker in Savannah, Chatham County, erected in 1929. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.0737, -81.0940 near Savannah. The nearest cataloged historic site is History Of Emancipation: Special Field Orders No. 15 (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Madison Square, The March to the Sea, and Old Sorrel–Weed House.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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