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    Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from...
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    The Fort East Martello Museum & Gardens (also known as the East Martello Tower), is a historic site located at 3501 South Roosevelt Boulevard, Key West...
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    Jaywick Martello Tower is a renovated Martello tower at Jaywick, 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south-west of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. It now functions as an arts, heritage...
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    Carleton Martello Tower in Saint John, New Brunswick, is one of the nine surviving Martello Towers in Canada. The tower dates from the War of 1812 and...
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    Meelick Martello Tower is a Martello tower constructed on Moran Island in the River Shannon between Meelick, County Galway and Clonahenoge, County Offaly...
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    historic buildings include a 16th-century moot hall and a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. A third of its housing consists of second homes. Visitors are drawn...
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    Murney Tower is a Martello tower in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, whose construction dates to January 1846. The Tower was built in response to the Oregon...
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    org/stable/30097160. Clements, Bill (2011). Martello Towers Worldwide. Pen and Sword. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-8488-4535-0. "The Martello Tower in Sandymount". Dublin City...
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    The West Martello Tower (also known as the Key West Garden Club) is a historic martello tower in Key West, Florida, United States. It is located at 1100...
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    Fort Hommet (category Martello towers)
    the site of fortifications that date back to 1680 and consists of a Martello tower from 1804, later additions during the Victorian Era, and bunkers and...
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    the strand is the Sandymount Martello tower, part of a system of defences built to warn of an invasion by Napoleon. The Tower was a popular cafe in the 1960s...
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    the tower was designed to hold. In front of the tower, the British also constructed a battery that they did arm with cannons. The Martello tower was used...
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    the course of a "community archaeology" dig along two trenches by the Martello Tower at the Iron Age site. Fingal Community Archaeologist and excavation...
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    The tower is situated 1 mile from the great windmill and a similar distance from both the Monument on Strand Street and the other Martello tower on Red...
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    of Martello towers along the Kent and Sussex coasts. Across the coast of Kent and Sussex the government constructed a series of well-fortified towers, known...
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    became the first Martello tower to be opened to the public and remains as a museum of Martello Towers, owned by English Heritage. Tower 25 is possibly the...
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    Ireland's Eye (category Towers in the Republic of Ireland)
    uninhabited for centuries but holds the ruins of an early church, and a Martello tower. The Eye is the basis for both a Special Area of Conservation and a...
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    (1806–1869) built the oval tower of granite from Herm, completing the work in 1857. Although not strictly a Martello tower, Bréhon represents the final...
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  • Crockness Martello Tower is a Martello Tower on Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. It was built during the Napoleonic Wars, at the same time as the Martello Tower at Hackness...
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    to the walls of Quebec, the four Martello towers were begun by James Craig in 1808 and completed in 1812. The towers were arranged to provide for each...
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    "Martello Tower Sutton - History". Martello Tower, Sutton. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Bolton, Jason (1 March 2008). "Martello Towers Research...
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    to place the three towers in Schmelz, Prater & Floridsdorf. Battle of Berlin Defence of the Reich Nazi architecture Martello tower George Pagliero (2008)...
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    Most shops are on the village's main street, Broadway. A 200-year-old Martello tower on the coastline was converted into an arts and heritage centre. The...
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    Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of...
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  • the Channel Islands. The fortifications include castles, forts, towers, Martello towers, artillery batteries, and seawalls. Not infrequently, fortifications...
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    these, Martello Tower No. 24 is closest to its original condition, and has its cannon. It is open to the public during the summer months. The towers were...
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  • 29 Martello towers and battery installations were constructed or partially constructed in the Greater Dublin Area between 1803 and 1808. The towers were...
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  • The Martello Tower (Sinhala: මාටෙලෝ කුළුණ Matelo Kuluna) in Hambantota, is a small circular shaped fort, inspired by the Martello tower (a 15th-century...
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    Fortifications such as Fort Zachary Taylor, the East Martello Tower, and the West Martello Tower, helped ensure that Key West would remain in Union control...
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    The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel...
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