Download or read book Martello Towers Worldwide written by Bill Clements and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martello Towers Worldwide follows the history of the Martello tower from the construction of the early towers built to protect the Mediterranean shores of Spain and Italy right up to the final towers built in the United Kingdom during the First World War. The book is illustrated with a large number of contemporary and historic photographs, drawings and plans, a very large number of which were not included in the earlier Towers of Strength. These provide the most detailed information yet published about the development of the Martello towers in Britain and overseas. So the book will be of particular interest to those interested in the history of fortifications, architectural conservation and military history generally. It will also be of interest to an international readership as the book now has a gazetteer of towers outside the United Kingdom that remain today together with a chapter describing a number of towers built in the United States. The book supplements the earlier Towers of Strength and such will be an important addition to the existing bibliography of books on Martello towers and fortification.
Download or read book Martello Towers written by Sheila Sutcliffe and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martello Towers--those squat, circular buildings on lonely stretches of coastline--have been part of the seaside scene for over 150 years. This book describes how and why they were built, their history, and what they are used for today.
Download or read book The Little Book of Cork Harbour written by Kieran McCarthy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cork Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is a historical wonder, surrounded by villages, forts, towers and churches, all of which combine to tell the colourful story of Ireland's largest county. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this book by author and historian Kieran McCarthy can be dipped into time and again to uncover new landmarks, people and stories from this stunning part of the world.
Download or read book Castles and Fortifications in Ireland 1485 1945 written by Paul M. Kerrigan and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castles & fortifications in Ireland
Download or read book Towers of Strength written by W H Clements and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-08-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martello towers were built in the early part of the nineteenth century to defend the coast of England against Napoleonic invasion. Almost 200 years later forty-one of these handsome brick towers still stand along the coast of Kent, Sussex, Essex and Suffolk. The chest of their construction was comparable in relative terms to that of of today's Trident missile system. The line of towers was never tested in action, but acted as an effective deterrent against invasion. Today Martello towers are a familiar sight from Aldeburgh in Suffolk to Newhaven in Sussex, but it is generally known that similar towers were built by the Royal Engineers to defend British interests in other parts of the world. Martello towers were being built as late as the 1850s as far afield as Canada, Mauritius, Australia and the Mediterranean. This book, illustrated with numerous photographs and plans, is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the known Martello towers built by the British. Its description of their construction, use, current condition and fate will fascinate the enquiring reader, as well as being a source of interest to visitors. Many of the towers remain landmarks today, Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour being a case in point.
Download or read book Napoleonic Britain written by David Buttery and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first guide to sites in the British Isles connected to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to be published. Stately homes, memorials, statues, dockyards, fortifications, tombs, churches, hospitals and museums associated with the wars are all described in vivid detail. There are hundreds of such sites with many of them being closely linked to military heroes like Wellington and Nelson and the forces they commanded. Highpoints include not only St Paul’s Cathedral, Nelson’s Column and Apsley House in London but more obscure monuments and buildings outside the capital like Edinburgh Castle, HMS Victory in Portsmouth Dockyard, the Western Heights Fortifications in Dover, Fishguard invasion site in Wales, Castlebar battlefield in Ireland and Martello towers along the English coastline. Many minor sites of great interest are listed too. David Buttery’s guidebook gives the reader a fascinating insight into this long period of conflict between the British and the French and into the buildings, statues and memorials that commemorate it.
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland written by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland written by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
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Download or read book Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society written by Cork Historical and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes lists of members.
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