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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Pampoennek Blockhouse Prieska Blockhouse Riversford Blockhouse The Reservoir Blockhouse The Stormberg Junction South Blockhouse Timeball Hill Blockhouse The Warrenton...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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