Fortifications Collection (#4)

View of the castle, 11th-13th century (restored) (photo)
XJL88982 View of the castle, 11th-13th century (restored) (photo); Loarre, Aragon, Spain

The Porta Nigra, 4th century (photo)
BAL114782 The Porta Nigra, 4th century (photo); Trier, Germany; (add.info.: largest extant Roman city gate;)

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: the Royal Palace of Gripsholm…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: the Royal Palace of Gripsholm, on the Malar Lake, near Stockholm - from a sketch by our Special Artist, 1864....a view of Gripsholm Castle

Reopening of the Chapel in the Royal Palace of Frederiksborg, Denmark, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Reopening of the Chapel in the Royal Palace of Frederiksborg, Denmark, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Simon Simonsen, showing...the moment when the Bishop of Zeeland, before the altar

"Norham Castle", from the photographed edition of the "Liber Studiorum", by J. M. W. Turner, 1864....a photograph from any work of art...in which variety of colour is a prominent

General Todleben, the Russian military engineer, 1864. Creator: Unknown
General Todleben, the Russian military engineer, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by M. Steinberg, Todleben...though a subject and servant of the Russian empire, is of German race

Arrival of the Governor-General of India at the Lahore railway station, 1864. Creator: C. R
Arrival of the Governor-General of India at the Lahore railway station, 1864. Engraving of a photograph by Messrs. Raybon

The Return, (see "The Roundhead's Parole") - drawn by Samuel Read, 1864, Creator: Mason Jackson
The Return, (see "The Roundhead's Parole") - drawn by Samuel Read, 1864. Illustration to a short story. The barges went heavily back to Chillington with the returning tide

The War in America: Fort Lafayette, the Federal Bastille for political prisoners, 1862. Creator: Smyth
The War in America: Fort Lafayette, the Federal Bastille for political prisoners, 1862. The traveller to America who enters the beautiful harbour of New York...will observe

Castle at Ham, 2 Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Castle at Ham, 2 Mar 1918 (date created or published later). The Cha^teau de Ham (fort or forteresse de Ham), a castle in Ham, Somme department

Some of the men who took Tilloy, 10 Apr 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Some of the men who took Tilloy, 10 Apr 1917. Soldiers of the 13th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment with captured machine guns in front of a German mobile pill box and observation post

How the Przemysl Forts were wrecked, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
How the Przemysl Forts were wrecked, between 1914 and c1915. Fort in Przemysl, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Poland) during World War I

Mrs. Marsh entertaining wounded, Warwick Castle, 6 Oct 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Marsh entertaining wounded, Warwick Castle, 6 Oct 1915 (date created or published later). Mrs. Agnes Power Marsh, wife of Henry Wheelwright Marsh at Warwick Castle with soldiers wounded in World

Eastern wall of the Spaso-Yevfimiev Monastery, Suzdal, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Eastern wall of the Spaso-Yevfimiev Monastery, Suzdal, 1912

Smolensk: Fortress wall, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Smolensk: Fortress wall, 1912

Fürstenlager, a seat of the Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, near Auerbach... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Furstenlager, a seat of the Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, near Auerbach - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862. This Ducal palace

Mount Egmont, in the province of New Plymouth (Taranaki), North Island, New Zealand, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Mount Egmont, in the province of New Plymouth (Taranaki), North Island, New Zealand, 1862. The snow-crested Apollo of mountains, Mount Egmont, or Taranaki...shoots up from a sea of forest 8000ft

Scenes in Japan: palace of the Daimio at Agasi, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Scenes in Japan: palace of the Daimio at Agasi, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. F. L. Bedwell, of...the Palace of one of the daimios, at a place called Agasi

Steel embrasure for the fortifications of Cronstadt, manufactured at Millwall, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Steel embrasure for the fortifications of Cronstadt, manufactured at Millwall, 1864. A...three-gun wrought-iron shield...[made] by the Millwall Ironworks Company for the Russian Government...The

Views in Borneo: Kucking Fort, Sarawak, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Views in Borneo: Kucking Fort, Sarawak, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Frederick Boyle, ...of the scenery of Sarawak

Edinburgh: the Castle, from the Greyfriars Cemetery, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Edinburgh: the Castle, from the Greyfriars Cemetery, 1864. The first object which every one visits in the Old Town is the renowned Castle of Edinburgh

The War in America: Fort Fisher...the British steamer Hansa running the blockade... 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The War in America: Fort Fisher, commanding the new inlet entrance to Cape Fear River - the British steamer Hansa running the blockade under the guns of the Fort, 1864

The Dannewerk, Kur-Graben, and East Rampart...from a plan by Lieutenant-Colonel W. Dreyer... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Dannewerk, Kur-Graben, and East Rampart - from a plan by Lieutenant-Colonel W. Dreyer, taken in 1860, 1864. By reference to the accompanying Map it will be observed that the East Rampart is so

The semicircular rampart at the Dannewerk, near Bustrup, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The semicircular rampart at the Dannewerk, near Bustrup, 1864. The Dannewerk as it now stands consists essentially of three distinct and separate earth-walls, which

The Rhine: Rheinstein, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Rhine: Rheinstein, 1864. The very name of "the Rhine" has a magic sound, expressive of all that is lovely and romantic

The Gathering of the Highland Clans at Braemar Castle, in the presence of the Prince and... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Gathering of the Highland Clans at Braemar Castle, in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr

Braemar, from the Garden of the Invercauld Arms, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Scottish Highlands near Balmoral - Braemar, from the Garden of the Invercauld Arms, 1864....the Invercauld Arms, in the little village named Castleton of Braemar

The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: the Palace of Gottorf, at Schleswig, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: the Palace of Gottorf, at Schleswig, 1864. The Gottorf Palace is situated on one of the little islands that are formed by the creeks jutting, as it were

Sketches from New Zealand: the Queen's Redoubt, on the Waikato, HQ of Lieut.-Gen. Cameron, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from New Zealand: the Queen's Redoubt, on the Waikato, the head-quarters of Lieutenant-General Cameron, 1864. From "Illustrated London News", 1864

The Prince and Princess of Wales at at the gate of Rosenborg Castle, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Prince and Princess of Wales at at the gate of Rosenborg Castle, [Copenhagen, Denmark], 1864. The future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in Scandinavia

The Throne Room, Palace of Holyrood, and the Ancient Regalia of Scotland, 1842. Scots in traditional tartan, and exterior view of Holyroodhouse in EdinburghFrom " Illustrated London News"

Polruan, Lanteglos by Fowey, Cornwall. Around 1912
A view of Polruan from Fowey, showing the village on the hillside with the Fowey Estuary in the foreground. Yachts and small sailing boats can be seen on the river

Queen Victoria hearing Lohengrin at Windsor Castle on her Eightieth Birthday
Queen Victoria hearing " Lohengrin" at Windsor Castle on her Eightieth Birthday, 24 May 1899, (1901). Victoria (1819-1901) at a performance of Richard Wagners opera

The Marriage of Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorne... 1871, (1901). Creator: Unknown
The Marriage of Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorne in St. Georges Chapel, Windsor, March 21, 1871, (1901). Queen Victorias daughter Princess Louise (1848-1939) married John Campbell (1845-1914)

Flood waters in the moat at the Tower of London, 1928, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Flood waters in the moat at the Tower of London, 1928, (1935). The worst Thames flood within living memory...the Tower moat - ordinarily used as a football ground - filled with water

Blockhouse, Polruan, Lanteglos by Fowey, Cornwall. Around 1910
A view of the blockhouse at Polruan, looking up the Fowey River. The blockhouse fortification was built in the 14th century and guards the entrance to the river

Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes at dusk, Medieval Old Town, Rhodes City, Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece

Saint Paul's Gate, Medieval Old Town, Rhodes City, Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece

Saint Nicholas Fortress at dusk, Rhodes City, Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece

Windmills and Medieval Old Town, Rhodes City, Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece

Saint Nicholas Fortress, Rhodes City, Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece

Defensive Wall and Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, Medieval Old Town, Rhodes City, Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece

Eilean Donan Castle on Loch Duich, Dornie, Scotland, UK

UK, England, Northumberland, Dunstanburgh Castle, Lilburn Tower

Portugal, Madeira, Funchal, View of Sao Tiago Fort

United KIngdom, Channel Islands, Gorey, Mont Orgueil Castle or Gorey Castle

Firing The Noon Day Gun At Castle Cornet, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Bahrain, Manama, Arad Fort

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"From ancient hill forts to majestic castles, fortifications stand as testaments of strength and history. The ramparts of the prehistoric hill fort on Hambledon Hill above the Blackmore Vale whisper tales of a time long gone. In Lucca, Italy, the fortified walls encircle the city like a protective embrace, preserving its medieval charm. In Northumberland, England, Embleton Bay Beach offers a breathtaking view of Dunstanburgh Castle's imposing ruins. The Youghal Clock Gate in Ireland stands tall with its fortified structure, reminding us of bygone eras. Traveling to Cornwall takes us to Polruan and Lanteglos by Fowey where an enchanting fortification from 1904 still captivates visitors with its timeless beauty. Hedingham Castle in Essex transports us back to 1832 through John Carr Armytage's intricate engraving. During World War II, Direction Finding Tower MP2 in La Corbiere served as a vital stronghold against enemy forces. Meanwhile, Malcesine on Lake Garda showcases Italy's architectural prowess with its formidable fortress overlooking serene waters. Clitheroe Castle perched atop a limestone outcrop paints an awe-inspiring picture of motte and bailey castle design in Lancashire. Turning back time once more brings us to the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War in 1644—a testament to resilience amidst chaos. Finally, Sinop in Turkey and Strasbourg in France bear witness to fortifications that have witnessed countless stories unfold throughout centuries. "