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Dido Elizabeth Belle (June 1761 – July 1804) was a British gentlewoman.She was born into slavery and illegitimate daughter of Captain John Lindsay of the Royal Navy and Maria Belle; her mother, Maria Belle, was an enslaved Black woman in the British West Indies.
1797 Ordnance Survey map, showing fortifications around Portsmouth and Portsea, fortified Gosport to the west, Hilsea Lines to the north, Fort Cumberland to the east. In the 18th century, Portsea started to grow up around the dockyard and in the 1770s a series of ramparts and moats were constructed to protect this new settlement. [25]
18th-century forts in England (1 C) F. ... Pages in category "18th-century fortifications" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total.
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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 ...
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.
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.
Fort George is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland.It was built to control the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing a Fort George in Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area.