Fortifications Collection (page 4)

En route to Constantinople -WWI
Propaganda postcard from early WWI era, showing British and French navy vessels aproaching (and assaulting) the walls of Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1915

Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight - The Gatehouse Arch
Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England - The Gatehouse Arch Date: circa 1930s

Pioneer Regiment entrenching in France - WWI
A Pioneer Regiment - British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks - dig trenches on the Western Front - WWI. Date: circa 1915

ROSSELLI, Matteo (1578-1650). Fortifications of San Miniato. 1615. ITALY. Florence. Buonaroti House. Episode in the life of Michelangelo. Baroque art. Oil on canvas

The city of Teheran from the Ispahan Road
A view of Teheran. From: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. Date: 1821

Cape of Good Hope. Book: An account of a voyage to New South Wales by George Barrington, superintendant of the convicts; to which is prefixed a detail of his life, trials, speeches, &c. &c

Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne GCB. Inspector General of Fortifications. Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, hands behind him

Capture of El Caney, El Paso & fortifications of Santiago. Date c1898 July 22. Capture of El Caney, El Paso & fortifications of Santiago. Date c1898 July 22

Castello d Arco, Lake Garda, Italy
The ruined fortifications of Castello d Arco at Arco on the shore of Lake Garda, Italy Date: circa 1910s

Defence towers of the Solovetsky Kremlin
Russia, Solovky Islands, Solovetsky. Defence towers of the Solovetsky Kremlin. 2010

Title page and frontispiece, Colonization of New Zealand
Title page and frontispiece, The British Colonization of New Zealand. Depicting a Maori warrior in the foreground, with a native fort on a hill in the background. 1837

Driving from the eighth tee at the Royal Malta Golf Club
The Malta links have nine holes and surround the fortifications. Date: 11th April 1903

The Ramparts of the Casbah - Tangiers, Morocco Date: circa 1930s

Wales / Pembroke
The harbour wall and fortifications of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, as seen from the ancient castle. Date: 1950s

Mytilene, Lesbos, The Castle
Mytilene, Greek Island of Lesbos - The Castle/Citadel Date: circa 1903

Rhodes, Greece - The Towers of the Fortress, built by the Knight Hospitaler (Knights of the Order of St John of Rhodes and Malta). Date: circa 1903

Rhodes, Greece - The Red Gate of the Castle Date: circa 1903

Rhodes, Greece - Black Tower and Hospitaller Cannon
Rhodes, Greece - Black Tower and Cannon of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Rhodes / Knights of Malta) Date: circa 1903

Beaufort - Luxembourg - Castle ruins. The oldest part of the castle dates from the early 11th Century. It was a small square-shaped fortress on a massive rock

Mosque at Rosetta, and Fort Julien, Egypt
The upper image shows an Egyptian mosque in Rosetta, Egypt. The lower image shows Fort Julien from the sea, with an Egyptian boat. 1803

Hadrians Mausoleum 18Th
Hadrians mausoleum also known as the CASTEL SANT ANGELO built in the 2nd century AD. It has used as a funerary monument, a prison, fortifications and a museum. Date: 2nd century

18th C. Fortifications
Various plans of 18th century fortifications. Date: Circa 1760

Robert Van Hoeck
ROBERT VAN HOECK Flemish artist and military engineer from Antwerp, controller of fortifications for his majesty (Louis XIV ?) in Flanders. Date: 1622 - 1668

Typical fortifications of a castle

Military / Fortifications
MARTELLO TOWER Tower at the fair-way of the Thames and Medway. Date: 1856

Romans Building a Fort
Roman soldiers building a fort, during the campaigns against the Alemanni - erecting stockades, brick walls and columns Date: 1st/2nd centuries AD

Malta - Fort Ricasoli, built by the Knights of Malta between 1670 and 1693

Trogir (Trau), Croatia
Trogir (Trau) is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The historic city is situated on a small island between the Croatian mainland

Destroyed fortifications WWI
Destroyed fortifications in Belgium during World War I

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Fort Peshawar
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Helsinki fortifications WWII
Soldiers constructing fortifications in Helsinki during World War II

Croatia - Dubrovnik - City Walls

Croatia - Dubrovnik - Walls of the Minceta Fortress

Estonia - Tallinn
Tallinn (also known as Reval - many other alternate spellings depending on which country you are from!) - the capital and largest city of Estonia

Chateau of Chillon
The lakeside Chateau of Chillon, on the shore of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. From the mid 12th century, the castle was home to the Counts of Savoy

Tower at the Rumeli Hisari
A Tower at the Rumeli Hisari (European Side of Constantinople) looking away from the Black Sea down the Bosphorus

The City Walls at Salonica
The City Wall at Salonica, Greece

Dardanelles - The Castles
Castles at the Dardanelles, Turkey, Ottoman Empire

Mombasa - Kenya - Fort Jesus
Fort Jesus at Mombasa, Kenya - overlooks the entrance to the old port and was built by the Portuguese between 1593 and 1596 to protect the trade routes to India and East Africa

A ferry boat crossing the Bosphorus. Typical scene showing a crossing of a wide section of the Bosphorus with six oarsmen (quite unusual)

The Rumeli Hisari - Constantinople
View toward the Rumeli Hisari, a Fortress on the European side of the Bosphorus. Built by Mehmet II 1451-1452 prior to his conquering of Constantinople. The castle was completed in 4 months

Ancient City Wall - Damascus
Damascus, Syria - A section of the Ancient City wall

Harbour - Tangiers, Morocco
Harbour at Tangiers, Morocco

A fine Hilltop Palace - Madhya Pradesh - India
An imposing hilltop fortified palace in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Salonica, Fortifications at the Turkish cemetery
Salonica, Fortifications at the entrance to the Turkish cemetery

Egypt - Cairo - The Citadel and village
Arabian Village set under the imposing walls of the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt

Italy - Alassio - The Beach. In Eastern Italy on the Mediterranean coast - not far from Nice and the French border

Mexico - Baluarte de Santiago at Veracruz
The city of Veracruz is a major port city and municipality on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. This view shows the Baluarte de Santiago

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