A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It...
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The Blockhouse is a 1973 drama film directed by Clive Rees and starring Peter Sellers and Charles Aznavour. It is based on a 1955 novel by Jean-Paul Clébert...
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Bay Olympic (redirect from Blockhouse Bay (soccer))
currently compete in the Northern League. They have won the NRFL Premier League three times. The club was formed from the merger of Blockhouse Bay (founded 1948)...
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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...
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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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Blockhouse fort may refer to various blockhouse forts including: Blockhouse, Washington, a town named after a fort Fort Blockhouse, in Hampshire, England...
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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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The St. Andrews Blockhouse is a blockhouse fortification built in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick during the War of 1812. Built by nearby residents between...
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East Blockhouse may refer to: East Blockhouse, a Palmerston Fort in Milford Haven East Blockhouse, a 16th-century fortification in Angle, Pembrokeshire...
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West Blockhouse may refer to a: West Blockhouse, a Palmerston Fort in Milford Haven West Blockhouse, a 16th-century fortification in Angle, Pembrokeshire...
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Device Forts (redirect from Henrican blockhouse)
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 Blockhouse of Boston was a pioneering art and design cooperative of alumni from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts that opened...
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Gravesend 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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List of Device Forts (redirect from Brightlingsea Blockhouse)
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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Morningside Park (Manhattan) (redirect from Blockhouse No. 2 (Manhattan))
three other blockhouses numbered 2, 3, and 4 were erected within present-day Morningside Park. The blockhouses at Morningside Park were along the cliff and...
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Addison Blockhouse Historic State Park is a state park located in Volusia County, Florida. It features the Addison Blockhouse, a small coquina rock ruin...
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West Blockhouse Fort is a mid-19th century coastal artillery fort at West Blockhouse Point, a rocky headland near Dale, Pembrokeshire, to the west of Milford...
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Blockhouse No. 1, colloquially known as The Blockhouse, is a small fort in the North Woods section of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. Finished...
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Blockhouse is an unincorporated community in Klickitat County, in the U.S. state of Washington. Blockhouse had its start in the 1850s when a military...
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Blockhouse is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Lunenburg Municipal District in Lunenburg County. It was named after...
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Gananoque (redirect from Gananoque Blockhouse)
five guns. The blockhouse was abandoned after the War of 1812 and given to a private landowner. The blockhouse was quickly repaired in the 1837–38 Patriot...
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The Burnsed Blockhouse (also known as the Carl Brown House) is a historic site originally located north of Sanderson, Florida, United States, off Jacksonville...
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six other blockhouses -- to guard the approaches to Toronto in case there was another rebellion. The Sherbourne Blockhouse was located at the northern...
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List of castles and fortifications in South Africa (section Blockhouses of the Second Anglo-Boer War)
Pampoennek Blockhouse Prieska Blockhouse Riversford Blockhouse The Reservoir Blockhouse The Stormberg Junction South Blockhouse Timeball Hill Blockhouse The Warrenton...
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Fort Southwest Point (redirect from Southwest Point Blockhouse)
commanded part of the militia, encamped at Southwest Point in 1792. By November of that year, Sevier's troops had completed a blockhouse at the site, which...
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Pendennis Castle (redirect from Little Dennis Blockhouse)
of the castle to protect it against an attack from the land, and an additional gun battery facing upriver was installed alongside the blockhouse. The levels...
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Royal Blockhouse is a historic archaeological site located near Moreau, Saratoga County, New York. It was the site of a three-story, 90-feet square, blockhouse...
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Tilbury Fort (redirect from West Tilbury Blockhouse)
historically as the Thermitage Bulwark and the West Tilbury Blockhouse, is an artillery fort on the north bank of the River Thames in England. The earliest version...
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List of forts in Washington County, Pennsylvania (redirect from Miller's Blockhouse)
Miller's Blockhouse to the history of Pennsylvania. The actual site of the blockhouse is 3 miles (4.8 km) north. Rice's Fort was a fortified blockhouse in present-day...
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Merrickville–Wolford (redirect from Merrickville Blockhouse)
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 operated by the Merrickville...
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