Early American Defenses of San Francisco, with John Martini - SFHS June 2022 Program

[@-oiiio-3993]

All of this time no one saw any previous constructions of 'ancient Tartarians' or anyone else.

[@mdj.6179]

Battery & Montgomery? Aren't those streets parallel to each other?

[@ApartmentKing66]

Yes. Montgomery was the street that lined the cove (where the Transamerica Pyramid is today). Montgomery Street was San Francisco's waterfront. Battery is two blocks east of Montgomery. He probably meant to say "Battery and Washington." I think Washington Street was the north "rim" of the cove. At any rate, the Pyramid and everything east of it is on landfill. A LOT of changes were made to San Francisco's east shoreline down through the decades. A lot of people wouldn't recognize it today if they saw a map of what it used to look like and where the Cove was. Same with what used to be "Mission Bay" just south of the San Francisco approach of the Bay Bridge.

[@doogboy]

WOW!

[@melbaker9495]

The story of the HMS Setleg is really interesting. The closest Alcatraz came to firing on a foreign ship in October of 1963.

[@garoldhaynes1690]

HMS Sutlej, 1 October 1863...