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The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales by Henry VIII. [ 2 ] [ a ] They ranged from large stone castles , to small blockhouses and earthwork bulwarks . [ 4 ]
Bermuda had around 90 coastal defense forts and batteries [1] scattered all over the island chain. Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new ...
In the United Kingdom the term fort superseded the term castle in the Tudor period when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves. See also: Castles in the United Kingdom which contains articles about many castles of the 11th to 16th centuries, and some later non-military buildings styled as castles.
The spellings "hill fort", "hill-fort" and "hillfort" are all used in the archaeological literature. The Monument Type Thesaurus published by the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage lists hillfort as the preferred term. [9] They all refer to an elevated site with one or more ramparts made of earth, stone and/or wood, with an external ...
Fort William Henry was a British fort at the southern end of Lake George, in the province of New York. The fort's construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War , as a staging ground for attacks against the French position at Fort St. Frédéric .
There are 1,224 hill forts in England. [1] Although some originate in the Bronze Age, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain). There was a trend in the 2nd century BC for hill forts to fall out of use. [2]
Most of the forts in this category were built between the 16th and 20th centuries. In England the term fort gradually superseded the term castle in the Tudor period (1485-1603) when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves.