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Author | : Bill Clements |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2011-07-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1783408782 |
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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.
Author | : W. H. Clements |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1998-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473819865 |
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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.
Author | : Bill Clements |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848845359 |
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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.
Author | : Geoff Hutchinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Martello towers |
ISBN | : 9780951993620 |
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Author | : R. M. Telling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1998-05-01 |
Genre | : Martello towers |
ISBN | : 9780953006410 |
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Author | : Daniel S. MacCannell |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2021-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526753464 |
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Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775–1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned color photographs, it includes not only these structures’ forerunners, and plans that were never executed, but also the grand strategy that informed them. At its best, this saw Britain’s position as a vast land battle, with the deadly threat of the French-held Antwerp navy yards on its own ‘left wing’, and Lisbon as the enemy’s ‘weak left’ to be ‘turned’. The book also takes in the astonishingly inventive, bold and bloody small-boat wars that raged from the Baltic and Channel coast to Chesapeake Bay and Lake Ontario, and provides vivid pen-sketches of the now-obscure and sometimes deeply flawed strategic visionaries, engineers, inventors, and fighting men who held the line as – even after Trafalgar – the forces of an ever more powerful French empire circled like sharks. Along the way, it traces a fundamental change in the nature of war and society: from a ponderous game of fortresses and colonies played by rulers, to murderous ‘foot by foot’ defence of the whole territory of the nation by ‘both sexes and every social type’.
Author | : Francis Martin Norman (pseud. Martello Tower.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 1902 |
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ISBN | : |
Download "Martello Tower" in China and the Pacific in H. M. S. "Tribune", 1856-60, by Francis Martin Norman,... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Francis Martin Norman |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2014-01-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781293487785 |
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ "Martello Tower" In China, And The Pacific In H. M. S. "Tribune," 1856-60 Francis Martin Norman G. Allen, 1902 China; Voyages and travels
Author | : J.E Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2004-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313072906 |
Download Modern European Military Fortifications, 1870-1950 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This selected bibliography on modern European fortifications, from 1850 to 1950, provides a selection of the most important books and articles written on this topic. The work covers regions and countries and includes many sources on such popular topics such as the Maginot Line along with lesser known fortifications such as the Salpa Line and the Swiss National Redoubt. References for the fortifications that appear cover everything from the Iberian Peninsula to the Soviet Union and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean countries. This work includes not only American and English, but also non-English publications. This source features books and articles done in the nineteenth and twentieth century ending in December 2000. Each contributor is a member of SITE O, an international fortifications research group. In addition to helpful annotations, each chapter includes summaries on the fortifications. Also features a multi-lingual glossary and reference maps.
Author | : D. Glyn FOREST (pseud.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1949 |
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