Defence Gallery
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Choose from 500 pictures in our Defence collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. All professionally made for Quick Shipping.
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Camber Castle AA98_04491
CAMBER CASTLE, Winchelsea, Rye, East Sussex. Camber Castle was built on the low-lying coastal dunes in around 1540 as part of Henry VIII's defensive scheme to counter invasion from the French and Spanish. It is now in the care of English Heritage. Photographed by Eric de Mare between 1945 and 1980
© Historic England
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Bull Sand Fort 20620_039
BULL SAND FORT, Humber Estuary. Aerial view. Standing one and a half miles from shore off Spurn Head on a submerged sandbank, it stands 18 metres high and 25metres in diameter. Bull Sand Fort and its twin Haile Sand Fort were built in 1914 to protect the mouth of the Humber from enemy attack. They were completed just as the First World War broke out. They were also used in the Second World War as anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defences
© Historic England
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Calshot Castle engraving N070778
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. South view of Calshot Castle in Hampshire by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (1739). This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water
© Historic England
Artillery, Coast, Defence, Engraving, Fortification, Tudor
