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Others were kept in service and used during the English Civil War, the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and, upgraded with more modern artillery and defences, throughout the 19th century. [11] By 1900, however, developments in guns and armour had made most of the Device Forts that remained in service simply too small to be practical in ...
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One of Kolkata's most enduring British-era military fortifications, other than those in Bombay and Madras , it extends over an area of seventy hectares. The fort was named after King William III. [1] In front of the Fort is the Maidan, the largest park in the country. An internal guard room became the Black Hole of Calcutta.
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. [a] Traditionally, the Crown had left coastal defences in the hands of local lords and communities but the threat of French and Spanish invasion led the King to issue an order, called a "device", for a major programme of work ...
A model of the fortifications built around London during the English Civil War viewed from the east. [2] Lines of Communication were English Civil War fortifications commissioned by Parliament and built around London between 1642 and 1643 to protect the capital from attack by the Royalist armies of Charles I. By 1647 the Royalist threat had ...
Prior to construction of the Redoubt a bastioned fort had stood there as part of the 18th-century fortifications. [9] The construction of the Redoubt was in two periods: the first being from 1804 to 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, and the second from 1859 to 1864 following the recommendations of the 1859 Royal Commission.
Fort William and Mary sketch by Wolfgang William Romer (1705). On December 14, 1774, local Patriots from the Portsmouth area, led by local political leader and rebel activist John Langdon, stormed the post (overcoming a six-man caretaker detachment) and seized the garrison's gunpowder supply, which was distributed to local militia through several New Hampshire towns for potential use in the ...
A map by Wenceslas Hollar showing the temporary fortifications of the Siege of Plymouth during the English Civil War. During the English Civil War, Plymouth declared for Parliament while much of the rest of Devon and Cornwall was a stronghold of the Royalists. Accordingly, the town was besieged by Royalist forces between 1643 and 1646.