96-km Caledonian Canal linking the east and west coasts of Scotland from Inverness to Corpach near Fort William, was built under the direction of William Jessop and Thomas Telford between 1804 and 1822 [...] passes through four lochs, crosses 3 aqueducts and incorporates 29 lochs. Near the visitor centre at Fort Augustus, at the entrance to Loch Ness, are 5 locks, completed in 1820, and a lighthouse.

the first big guns arrived two years later. The line of forts was obsolete before it was completed and was often called Palmerston’s folly. Fort Nelson served as a barracks for newly recruited soldiers [...] Four Nelson is one of the ring of polygonal forts built on the landward side of the naval base at Portsmouth in the 1860s, when the British government under Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) feared an invasion

consortium is based, was established in 1981, initially in an 18th century gunpowder store in the fort of San Felipe, but now in the Cala Corb barracks in the town of Es Castell, which was established [...] Vickers at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Two Vickers guns of 1932 and 1936 remain in place. The ruins of Fort San Felipe occupy the site of a Spanish castle of the 16th century, which was enlarged by the British [...] for storage, the first floor for accommodating soldiers and the upper floor for combat. The small fort of San Felipe on Larareto island is a structure of this kind, and was built alongside a 6-gun battery

Kingdom to become part of the railway network. The North British Railway’s route linking Glasgow with Fort William was completed in 1894, and the 67.5 km extension to Mallaig in 1901. The principal engineering [...] travellers to inspect the viaduct and see the museum is made there by the Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig, which is operated by West Coast Railways.

History Group. It is the starting point for trails along which visitors can see prehistoric hill forts, and the ruined church of Kilchattan, first mentioned in historical records of the sixteenth century

until 1827, well into the reign of King William I. The principal installations were the Kijkduin fort and the Willemsoord naval dockyard. Willemsoord was used by the Netherlands Royal Navy from 1827 until

which the detached city and oblast of Kaliningrad (Kőnigberg) are part. The museum occupies the Nerija Fort, built in nineteenth century to protect the approaches to the seaport of Klaipēda. The fortress was

and small, remain in the region. The industry is commemorated in the museum at Saint Hippolyte du Fort, a small town on the River Vidourie, which provided power for throwing mills. The museum portrays

Windmill is 12.2 m high with a thatched cap, has four sails, and stands on the site of a prehistoric fort. The Great Windmill probably dates from the late eighteenth century and was rebuilt with five sails

end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The core of the defense system consisted of forts and other military installations, which were connected by a road inaugurated in 1902 and initially

Il-Kalkara), which was fortified with Fort Ricasoli (Forti Rikażli) in the 17th century. The Knights quarried out a harbour for galleys from the cliffs beneath Fort Sant Angelo (Forti Sant’Anġlu) on the

Engineer to the harbours of Dover, Alderney, St Catherine’s Jersey and Breakwater and Shovel Rock Fort, Plymouth. He was a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers from 1839, becoming President in 1863

of the Great Western Railway’s Severn Tunnel. He was consulted on the foundations of the island forts built in Spithead to protect the naval base at Portsmouth, was involved with the construction of docks

“small ore” because of its low iron content – about 20-35% less than in "good iron", the so-called "fer fort". The streak of "minette" through the Lorraine basin between Nancy and the Luxembourg border was thirty

century when, in case of invasion, Portsmouth was fortified on the landward side with a series of forts (see Fareham). Three ships of major importance are conserved in the historic dockyard which also contains