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Tung Chung Fort, Hongkong

Tung Chung Fort, Hongkong

Tung Chung Fort is a fort located near Tung Chung, on Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. Located near Tung Chung Road, the fort is surrounded by villages of Sheung Ling Pei and Ha Ling Pei. It has a companion Tung Chung Battery on the coast.

Tung Chung Fort was built in during Shun Hei era (淳熙, 1174 - 1189) of Southern Song Dynasty. Smugglers on the Lantau Island smuggle...
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La Redoute at Rivedoux-Plage

La Redoute at Rivedoux-Plage

Situated at the beginning of a long sandy strip moving forward in the direction of the continent, the Redoute of Rivedoux was built in 1673 on a strategic place. The building is a square with 45m-sides preceded with a deep, dry ditch and bordered by two revetments. The structure was designed to block the Isthmus of Sablanceaux while linking the North beach with the South beach. The Redoute of R...
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St. Olafs Castle, Savonlinna

St. Olafs Castle, Savonlinna

Olavinlinna (known as Olofsborg in Swedish, which is St. Olaf's Castle in English) is a 15th century castle located in Savonlinna, Finland. It is the world's most northern medieval stone castle. It was founded by Erik Axelsson Tott in 1475 under the name Sankt Olofsborg as an effort to protect Savonia and control the unstable border between the Kingdom of Sweden and its Russian adversary. The c...
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Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach

Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach

High above the Old Town of Kronach rises the Rosenberg Fortress. With an area of 23.6 hectares it is considered to be the largest fortifications in Germany.
The almost completely symmetrical, model fortress complex has evolved over the centuries, surrounded even today by a complex of walls, moats, buildings, and gates. The various stages of building are clearly recognizable - the mediev...
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Fortress Petersberg, Erfurt

Fortress Petersberg, Erfurt

On June 1st, 1695, the first foundation stone was laid for one of the few remaining 17th century city fortifications to be found in Germany. Today the Petersberg Citadel is an impressive example of European fortification construction dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
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Fort de la Rade, Ile dAix

Fort de la Rade, Ile dAix

he Fort de la Rade, on the Ile-d'Aix off Rochefort, was destroyed by the English in 1757, then rebuilt on mightier lines.
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Fort Gaines, Alabama

Fort Gaines, Alabama

Fort Gaines is a historic fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States. It was named for Edmund Pendleton Gaines. Established in 1821, and best known for its role in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

Exhibits include the huge anchor from the USS Hartford, Admiral David Farragut's flagship on which he gave his world famous command, "**** the Torpedoes...
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Fort Marlborough, Bengkulu

Fort Marlborough, Bengkulu

FORT MARLBOROUGH is an old fortress Built in 1713 till 1719 by British East India. As a British colonial heritage, Marlborough is located in the main street of Bengkulu. Inside the building, there is a subway connected to the outside. It was as the second strongest fort built by British in the east after Fort George in Madras, India. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1817 was appointed by British ...
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Fort Vredeburg, Yogyakarta

Fort Vredeburg, Yogyakarta

Fort Vredeburg is a fortress built by the Dutch in Yogyakarta during the colonial ages. It is located in front of Gedung Agung, one of 7 presidential palaces in Indonesia and the Sultan Palace called Kraton. It was bulit in 1765 to protect Dutch governor. It is surrounded by a trench that is still visible.

This square-shaped fortress has 4 watch towers at its 4 corners. In the p...
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Fort Cornwallis, Penang

Fort Cornwallis, Penang

Fort Cornwallis is an old star-shaped fort located on the northeastern coast of Penang, Malaysia. It is named after the late 18th century Governor-General of Bengal, India. Fort Cornwallis was built by Captain Sir Francis Light after taking possession of the island from the Sultan of Kedah in 1786. It was originally built with a nibong (Malay: palm trunk) stockade with no permanent structures, ...
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Fort Saint Jerome of the Large Entrance, San Juan

Fort Saint Jerome of the Large Entrance, San Juan

Fortín de San Gerónimo del Boquerón (Fort Saint Jerome of the Large Entrance) is a small fort located in the entrance to what is known today as Condado, Puerto Rico lagoon in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was built during the 17th century to replace a smaller battery (called El Boquerón) that stood at the easternmost end of the San Juan islet. The original Boquerón battery defended San Juan from at...
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Golubac fortress near Golubac

Golubac fortress near Golubac

The Golubac fortress (Serbian: Голубачки град or Golubački grad) is located near the town of Golubac in north-eastern Serbia, on the right side of the Danube river, and marks the entrance to the Djerdap national park. It was most likely built during the 14th century, and it is a rather large and well-preserved fo...
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Fort Napoleon, Oostende

Fort Napoleon, Oostende

The 'Fort Napoleon' in Oostende is the only still completely intact Napoleonic fortress left in Europe. The 'Fort' stands in the dunes north of the city center. In 1810 Napoleon Bonaparte, then Emperor of France, had it constructed during the French occupation of Belgium. Five hundred Spanish prisoners of war had to build it together with bricklayers from the Oostende area. The fort was finishe...
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Fortress Josefov

Fortress Josefov

Fortress Josefov (Pevnost Josefov in Czech) is large defence complex built between 1780 - 1790 in eastern Bohemia (today Czech Republic). It was named after emperor Joseph II. Together with fortress Terezín it was intended as protection against attack from Prussia but it never actively participated in a war.

Today it is part of city Jaroměř.
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Caponier - Fort Malakoff, Mainz

Caponier - Fort Malakoff, Mainz

The word originates from the French word "caponnire" - which strictly means capon-cote or house.

The fire coming from the feature (e.g. muskets, machine-guns, case-shot etc.) sweeps along the bottom of the attendant ditch and so prevents the enemy from establishing itself there. The term is found in current use as late as I7th century.

In some types of ...
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Ruins Old Panama

Ruins Old Panama

Panama Viejo, located on the Pacific Ocean coast and adjacent to tthe delta of the Abajo river, is the most important archaeological site in the Republic of Panama.

It is the oldest Spanish settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. Founded in 1519 by Pedrarias Dávila, it was abandoned after the attack of the city by the pirate Henry Morgan and never rebuilt. Its ruins we...
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Shipwrecks of the Orkneys

Shipwrecks of the Orkneys

Includes the scuttled German High seas fleet, WW1 British losses, and the Royal Oak.
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Martello Tower, Leith

Martello Tower, Leith

Leith Martello Tower is located within the secure area of the Port of Leith, facing out onto the Firth of Forth. Built in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars, the 9-m (30-foot) high tower was part of a network designed to prevent a French invasion and see off American Privateers.
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Appian Way and Downtown Rome

Appian Way and Downtown Rome

This file contains three overlays:
One shows the Appian Way and the Traian Appian Way;
Other shows the roman ways from Rome;
The last shows the downtown Rome at Roman Empire age, with the Roman Forum, where the Appian Way starts.
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Medal Of Honor Recipients

Medal Of Honor Recipients

This collectionm marks all recipients of the "Medal Of Honor" fromn the China Incursion (1900) onwards. This is a large collection of over 1000 marks. All marks contain, where possible, images of the recipeints and other relevant web links.
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Victoria Cross Recipients

Victoria Cross Recipients

This file marks every holder of the VC (Victoria cross) throughout the world. Over 1300 marks are present in the file. All marks contain, where possible, pictures of the recipient and all relevant links.
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The Worlds serial Killers

The Worlds serial Killers

This collection marks the place of birth of the world's most evil serial killers. All marks contain images, various weblinks & crime summation.
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Castle Clinton

Castle Clinton

Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton is a circular sandstone fort and national monument in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Clinton
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Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Map of 1893 Chicago World's Fair overlay. Shows location of original buildings relative to today's park, including the science museum (only original structure remaining). World's fair regaining attention because of best selling book, "Devil in the White City".
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Petrovaradin Fortress

Petrovaradin Fortress

Petrovaradin fortress (Serbian: Петроварадинска тврђава or Petrovaradinska tvrđava) is a fortress on the Danube river, near Novi Sad in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on October 18th...
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