The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales...
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The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales...
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fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire...
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Fort Paull was a gun battery situated on the north bank of the Humber, near the village of Paull, downstream from Hull in northern England. Batteries have...
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Hurst Castle (category Device Forts)
artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal...
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Device Fort 16th century Ruins Camber Castle is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts built to protect the huge Rye anchorage. Pevensey Castle Roman fort and...
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Castle, also known historically as Branksea Castle, was originally a Device Fort constructed by Henry VIII between 1545 and 1547 to protect Poole Harbour...
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Camber Castle (category Device Forts)
Castle, also known formerly as Winchelsea Castle, is a 16th-century Device Fort, built near Rye by King Henry VIII to protect the Sussex coast of England...
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building Defensive wall, a fortified wall Blanket fort or pillow fort, built by children Device Forts, in England and Wales from 1539 Hillfort, earthworks...
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Pendennis Castle (category Device Forts)
an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect...
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population of 4,225 at the 2001 census. It is the site of Sandgate Castle, a Device Fort. H. G. Wells lived at Spade House, and it is also the birthplace of comedian...
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Landguard Fort is a fort at the mouth of the River Orwell outside Felixstowe, Suffolk, designed to guard the mouth of the river. It is now managed by the...
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order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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order, called a "device", in 1539, giving instructions for the "defence of the realm in time of invasion" and the construction of forts along the English...
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Dartmouth Castle (category Device Forts)
Dartmouth Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. The earliest parts of the castle date from the 1380s, when...
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Southsea Castle (category Device Forts)
is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII on Portsea Island, Hampshire, in 1544. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect...
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Sandown Castle, Isle of Wight (category Device Forts)
Sandown Castle was a Device Fort built at Sandown on the Isle of Wight by Henry VIII in 1545 to protect against the threat of French attack. Constructed...
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Down Fort, on Bristol Channel's south coast St Catherine's Fort, on southeast coast of Wales Folly fort Other British coastal defences: Device Forts (built...
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Calshot Castle (category Device Forts)
artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Calshot Spit, Hampshire, England, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme...
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that another man "acted at the fort as such a glutton, that he was put on the Chevalet, on which he was ruptured." The device was used during the American...
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Fortifications of the Isle of Wight (redirect from Forts on the Isle of Wight)
French invasion threats. Sandown Castle was one of Henry VIII's Device Forts. The Device Forts (Henrician Castles) were built as a network of coastal defences...
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military officer who commanded the fortifications at Calshot Castle, a Device Fort of Henry VIII guarding Southampton Water. It was in military use until...
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Deal Castle (category Device Forts)
Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII in Deal, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against...
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Portland Castle (category Device Forts)
an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, between 1539 and 1541. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect...
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Cowes Castle (category Device Forts)
Cowes Castle, also known as West Cowes Castle, is a Device Fort in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Originally built by Henry VIII in 1539 to protect England...
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St Mawes Castle (category Device Forts)
Lannvowsedh) is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect...
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Beacon Hill Battery (category Device Forts)
reign of Henry VIII, following his visit to the town in 1543. These were Device Forts, built at Tower House, Middle House and the House-upon-the-Hill. They...
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Yarmouth Castle (category Device Forts)
very different in style from the earlier circular bastions used in the Device Forts built by Henry and was the first of its kind to be constructed in England...
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Baradari in Lahore completed Approximate date of completion of some of the Device Forts on the coast of England: Calshot, Deal, Sandgate, Sandown and Walmer...
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Sandgate Castle (category Device Forts)
an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Sandgate in Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect...
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