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    The Old Blockhouse, also known as the Dover Fort, is a 16th-century fortification on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. It was built between...
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    added around 1740 by Abraham Tovey, Master Gunner. The Old Blockhouse gun tower protecting Old Grimsby harbour, vigorously defended during the Civil War...
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    lift of 25 ft (7.6 m). On the south side of the locks there is the old blockhouse, which has been restored by Parks Canada as a tourist site and museum...
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    the old blockhouse was demolished in 1844. Its remains were uncovered in archaeological excavations between 1975 and 1976. Gravesend Blockhouse was built...
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    several blockhouse fortifications were built in the area. The first such fort was built in what is now Central Park, and three other blockhouses numbered...
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    captured the island and proclaimed the Republic of Canada there. The old blockhouse was occupied by the rebel forces. Initially Mackenzie started with twenty-five...
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    Blockhouse Bay is a residential suburb in the south west of Auckland, in New Zealand's North Island. It is sited on the northern coast of the Manukau Harbour...
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  • Milton Blockhouse was an artillery fortification constructed as part of Henry VIII's Device plan of 1539, in response to fears of an imminent invasion...
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    Tilbury Blockhouse, is an artillery fort on the north bank of the River Thames in England. The earliest version of the fort, comprising a small blockhouse with...
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    breakout attempts by Communist forces. As the encirclement advanced, older blockhouses were abandoned and new ones were established progressively closer...
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    Isles of Scilly (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Down Burial Chamber Innisidgen Lower and Upper Burial Chambers The Old Blockhouse King Charles's Castle Harry's Walls, an unfinished artillery fort Garrison...
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  • A blockhouse is a small, isolated fort in the form of a single building. Blockhouse or block house may also refer to: Blockhouse (Central Park), fort in...
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    part of this work in 1855, and two new gun positions built around the old blockhouse. In 1887, the castle was equipped with 64-pound (29 kg) rifled, muzzle-loading...
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  • located in the northern suburbs of the city of Caen on the site of an old blockhouse. The architect was Jacques Millet and the original curator was Yves...
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    Hopetown Blockhouse Kaalfontein/Zuurfontein Blockhouse Modder River Blockhouse Noupoort Blockhouse Orange River Station Pampoennek Blockhouse Prieska Blockhouse...
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    Fort Blockhouse is a former military establishment in Gosport, Hampshire, England, and the final version of a complicated site. At its greatest extent...
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    There are three buildings on the site: the Ermatinger Old Stone House, the Clergue Blockhouse, and the Heritage Discovery Centre. The Ermatinger and...
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    latter years he was based at the Whau River Catchment Trust offices at the Blockhouse Bay Tennis Club in Auckland, and had told acquaintances that he thought...
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    neighbouring University for the Creative Arts building occupies the old blockhouse site and some of the original brickwork remains visible at the sides...
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    The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in what developed as Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee. Completed...
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    Old San Juan (Spanish: Viejo San Juan) is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the islet of San Juan in San Juan. Its area roughly...
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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...
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  • granite stone, with the gun battery at the front. Old Blockhouse Fort 1548–1551 Ruins On Tresco, overlooking Old Grimsby harbour. It was built by the government...
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    Native American tribes subsided. The fort was abandoned in 1862. The old blockhouse and soldiers' barracks were later moved into town as a memorial. The...
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    The arch was built of fieldstone and squared logs, resembling the old blockhouses that stood in the northwest as forts. Some 60,000 men, including the...
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    new record for precision bombing and destroyed a German battery. The old blockhouse provides panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean, the Cordouan lighthouse...
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    Blockhouse, and a ring of six other blockhouses -- to guard the approaches to Toronto in case there was another rebellion. The Sherbourne Blockhouse was...
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    began on replacing the old semi-circular gun battery on the promontory with a new casemated fort to replace the old blockhouse: Garrison Point Fort. Further...
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    infrastructure needed to convert the mine into a satisfactory prison. A small blockhouse was constructed over the main shaft with ladder – the only entrance and...
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    various aspects of military frontier life, including a militia blockhouse, a family blockhouse, several cabins demonstrating pioneer life, a blab school,...
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