Fortified Collection (page 6)

Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsoza

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

Fortress - Madhya Pradesh - India
The imposing walls of a large Fortress (or fortified Palace compound) in the Madhya Pradesh Province of India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Fortified Complex - Madhya Pradesh - India
A large Fortified complex in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Turkish Gun Battery - Dardanelles
Cannon of the 28th Enplacement - Dardanelles - Madjar Kale, WWI

A Camp during Zulu War
A British soldier waiting and watching from a fortified camp in Zululand during the Zulu war

Ada-Kaleh - Bego Mustaffa
Bego Mustaffa - almost certainly the ruler and headman of the fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh (1895 - 1900). The town is now underwater

Ada-Kaleh, The Mosque
Ada-Kaleh - The Mosque. The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station

British soldiers on Quinine parade
A photograph of British soldiers stationed at the Greek port of Salonika receiving their daily ration of quinine. During the war disease was a particular problem for the Allied troops at

A British shaving saloon, at Salonika
A photograph of British soldiers beside a shaving saloon, in their fortified position at the Greek port of Salonika. The walls of the hut in which a soldier is being shaved are decorated with

Jerez De LA Frontera
Jerez (formerly Xeres) seen from the ramparts : it gives its name to a fortified wine to which university dons are addicted

Republican Troops in a fortified position, near San Sebastia
Photograph showing a unit of Republican troops firing from behind a parapet of sandbags, near San Sebastian in the province of Guipuzcoa, 1936

Mount Athos, Greece
The monastery of Mount Athos, Greece, at one time housed more than six thousand monks, refugees from the wicked world beyond its strongly fortified walls

St Elmo Point / Valletta
The waterfront ruins and fortifications at St Elmo Point, Valletta, Malta

Fortifications / Valletta
Fortifications on the eastern side of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta

Penrhyn Castle / Wales
The view across the fields toward this fortified manor house, which was expanded and transformed in the form of a Norman Castle by Thomas Hopper in the mid 19th century

Verona Fortified
Verona, occupied by the Austrians, is sturdily fortified against the Piedmontese and French

Istanbul 14th Century
Imperial Byzantium before the Turkish conquest : the artist had evidently never been there and didn t know anyone who had, so he depicted it as an English fortified town

Tower of London 1929
An elevated view of the Tower and surrounding area

Buildings / Castle (Scrap)
A representation of a fortified castle (possibly German)

Boys at Breakfast
Four French schoolboys finish their breakfast and set off for school, fortified by coffee which has been mixed with chicory from Arlatte et Cie of Cambrai

Maori Village
Maori Pah, or fortified village, in the province of New Plymouth (Taranaki); the ornate gabled houses are characteristic of the indigenous building style

Hun Settlement
Ring-shaped fortified settlement of the Huns, who invade Europe from the east in the 4th century, occupying parts of Hungary and Germany before trying to move west

Peking from Nieuhof
A view of the city which includes the surrounding countryside. An 18th century engraving from a 17th century original

Sainte-Menehould C18Th
A panoramic view of the walled city of Sainte-Menehould in North-Eastern France

Sicily / Lipari & Castle
The volcanic island of Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily, showing the 13th century fortified walls & castle

Savoy Palace from Thames
Viewed from the River Thames showing the Great Buildings (soldiers Barracks); the Prison; Church of St. Mary le Savoy; A German Lutheran & Calvinist & French churches

Belvoir Castle C18Th
Belvoir Castle, home of the Dukes of Rutland, as it was prior to the fire of 1816 and the surrounding Leicestershire countryside

Alfred Rebuilds Walls
Having regained the possession of London from the Danes, King Alfred the Great rebuilt and fortified the walls of London and planted it with military settlers

Negombo, Sri Lanka, 1671
The Dutch fort at Negombo; like all Dutch establishments on the island, it is heavily fortified in readiness for attack from those residents who resent their presence

Bergamo, Lombardy
Fairly crude early engraving of the city of Bergamo seen from above showing the fortified walls and surrounding countryside

Hector Attacks Greeks
Hector having driven the Greeks to their retrenchments breaks down the palace walls with a great stone & with his troops drives them to their ships

Germans Surrendering
During the battle of Passchendaele, dazed Germans are driven out of their fortified cellars by British bombing, to be met by soldiers with rifles and bayonets

USA / Charleston
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - Arx Carolina, fortified settlement at the junction of the Ashley and Cooper rivers

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