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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 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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  • 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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    Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche Gorge Gunpowder magazine Hornwork Kotta mara Lunette Magazine Orillon Ostrog Palanka Place-of-arms Polygonal fort Presidio...
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  • a list of most of the fortifications on the island. The Palmerston Forts are forts built during the Victorian era. The name comes from their association...
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    Portland Castle (category Device Forts)
    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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    defence forts were built to protect coastal forts. Through the middle 19th century, coastal forts could be bastion forts, star forts, polygonal forts, or...
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    too close to Hull, so was disarmed when new forts were built at Sunk Island and Stallingborough. The fort was used as a training base between the wars...
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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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    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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