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Some of the forts were in Portuguese hands for a brief period - often a few years before the Portuguese were expelled, while others were held for centuries. Portuguese explorers have discovered many lands and the sea routes in the 15th–18th centuries during the Age of Discovery. Along the way they built outposts and fortresses, many of which ...
F. Fort D'El-Rei; Fort Dona Maria II; Fort Jesus; Fort Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Inhambane) Fort Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Lourenço Marques
Fort of Santiago do Outão; Fort of Santo Amaro do Areeiro; Fort of Giribita; Fort of São Bruno; Fort of São Filipe de Setúbal; Fort of São Francisco Xavier; Fort of São João Baptista (Berlengas) Fort of São João das Maias; Fort of São João do Arade; Fort of São Jorge at Oitavos; Fort of São Julião da Barra; Ínsua Fort; Fort of ...
The Fort of Almádena (Portuguese: Forte de Almádena) or (Portuguese: Forte de São Luís de Almádena), also known as the Fort of the River Mouth (Portuguese: Forte da Boca do Rio), is located between the towns of Salema and Burgau, in the Algarve region of Portugal. It was constructed in 1632.
During the Portuguese Restoration War, King John IV of Portugal identified the need to strengthen Lisbon's defences in the face of attacks by the Spanish navy. In 1647 he ordered construction of a fort at Caxias to improve the defence of the right bank of the Tagus by making possible crossfire with the Fort of Nossa Senhora do Vale (Our Lady of the Valley) to the east, now demolished, and the ...
The Fort of Milreu, also known as the Fort of St. Peter of Milreu (Portuguese: Forte de São Pedro de Milreu), is situated on the Atlantic coast 3km north of the town of Ericeira in Lisbon District of Portugal. Part of a programme to extend Portugal's coastal defences, it was built between 1670 and 1675.
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.
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