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	City of Saint John
		Carleton Martello Tower in West Saint John, was constructed for the War of 1812, a conflict resulting from strained relations between Great Britain and the United States of America.
		Martello towers were originally used as watch towers in the Mediterranean area during the Napoleonic Wars.
		The tower became the responsibility of the Canadian Department of Militia and Defence in 1867.
	www.tourismsaintjohn.com /files/fuse.cfm?section=13&screen=179 (287 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Southern Counties \| Martello Tower sells for £285,000
		The Martello Tower in Norman's Bay, near Pevensey in East Sussex, was expected to fetch £130,000 in auction.
		Martello Tower number 55 was built with 73 other towers on the south coast nearly 200 years ago, but only 25 are still standing.
		Four of the 74 towers built along the south coast were destroyed by the military to test guns or explosives, while 15 were demolished so the stone they were made of could be re-used.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/southern_counties/3630455.stm (224 words)

	MARTELLO TOWERS NAPOLEONIC DEFENSES, REDOUBT, UNITED KINGDOM v FRANCE
		The Martello Towers were part of the same defence scheme as the Redoubt, 74 being built between Folkestone in Kent and Seaford, 12 miles west of Eastbourne.
		By 1860, the Martello Towers were old-fashioned, as modern guns, such as the rifled breech-loading guns invented by Sir William Armstrong, were too advanced for the towers to stand up against adequately.
		The towers were eventually designed to be circular and the armament was revised, due to the lack of space on the roof.
	www.solarnavigator.net /martello_tower.htm (2066 words)

	The Martello Tower at Millmount
		The Martello Tower was part of a defensive strategy put in place by the British in early 19th century to warn of an impending Napoleonic invasion.
		Defensive towers erected on the south coast of Italy at the back end of the 18th century were known as Tot di Martello.
		Rather than using a bell to warn of an imminent invasion, lookouts in the tower would set alight a bundle of wood on the roof of the tower to alert the nearest tower, which in many cases was just a couple of hundred yards away.
	www.hoganstand.com /general/identity/extras/places/stories/martello.htm (1280 words)

	Martello Tower
		Martello Tower is a distinctive masonry FORTIFICATION used in defence of British North America in the first half of the 19th century.
		The 16 squat, flat-roofed towers built in British North America from 1796 to 1846 were distributed as follows: Halifax (5), Saint John (1), Québec City (4) and Kingston (6).
		None of the towers was ever subject to attack; 11 have survived.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC824045 (194 words)

	Martello Tower
		Martello Tower is a distinctive masonry FORTIFICATION used in defence of British North America in the first half of the 19th century.
		The 16 squat, flat-roofed towers built in British North America from 1796 to 1846 were distributed as follows: Halifax (5), Saint John (1), Québec City (4) and Kingston (6).
		None of the towers was ever subject to attack; 11 have survived.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005127 (194 words)

	Jaywick Martello Tower
		The magical opening of the Tower on 17th September 2005 was the culmination of a year-long art project by the artist Mark Storor and composer Jules Maxwell, ‘Soft Ices’
		Martello Towers are fortifications that were built by the British Army for coastal defence during the nineteenth century.
		The Jaywick Martello Tower is running a series of workshops designed to inspire, encourage and facinate.
	www.coastart.org /jaywickmartellotower.htm (63 words)

	Stone Monuments Decay Study 2000
		The Booterstown Martello Tower is a squat cylindrical, two-storey tower built of granite ashlar masonry between 1805 and 1815.
		Graffitti is evident on the north-west and west facades of the tower, and paint is present on the south-east facade.
		Even though the tower environment has the atmospheric pollution typical of the greater Dublin area, the tower is in good condition, with little evidence of pollution-derived decay forms normally associated with historic buildings located close to urban centres.
	www.heritagecouncil.ie /publications/stone/site16.html (515 words)

	Martello Tower - Dun Ar Ruin Irish Holiday Cottage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starting in 1804 a number of Martello Towers were built around the coast of England and Ireland as defences against a planned invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte.
		During the Napoleonic emergency, the two defensive Martello Towers, each with a cannon on top, were built to support and protect the Fort.
		Our Martello Tower is a free-standing, compact, squat, circular, two-storey structure built over a vaulted cellar with a parapet- protected roof which has a fixture for a large traversing cannon.
	www.dunarruin.com /martello.htm (398 words)

	History of Martello Tower \| SkerriesHomepage
		The are two Martello towers in Skerries, one on Red Island and the other on Shenick Island.
		The entrance to the tower is through a door, which was usually between ten and fifteen feet from the ground.
		Each tower was built in a position where one could see the two towers on either side.
	www.skerrieshomepage.com /history8.htm (257 words)

	The Martello Tower at Magilligan Point (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Magilligan Martello tower was built towards the end of the wars in 1812 and is one of the most northerly of the towers built all around the coasts of Ireland.
		The tower was built on top of a spring to ensure fresh water in case of a siege.
		The wall of the tower is reputed to be eleven feet thick and the structure is well preserved, except for the entrance which is blocked for unspecified safety reasons.
	www.jochenlueg.freeuk.com /english/mtower.htm (601 words)

	Martello Towers 1805 to 1815 - VillageNet History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 74 Martello Towers along the coast of Kent and East Sussex were built as a defense against the threat of an invasion by the French under Napoleon.
		The design for the Martello towers was copied from the defensive tower at Mortella Point in Corsica.
		Each tower was a cylindrical construction, with 3 floors, a ground floor used to house provisions and ammunition.
	www.villagenet.co.uk /history/1805-martello.html (391 words)

	Pictorial History - The Martello Tower - simonstown.com
		Three of the four 32-pounder guns mounted "en barbette" on traversing carriages can be seen on either side of the Tower with the three 18-pounders in a row on the left.
		The Martello Tower was used as a navigational beacon for ships entering Simon's Bay and was consequently white-washed in about 1843.
		The Martello Tower was restored in 1972 and proclaimed a National Monument.
	www.simonstown.com /museum/stm_hist_martellotower.htm (178 words)

	Martello Towers Homepage
		To celebrate 200 years of the South Coast Martello Towers Foundation to Firestep follows their construction in real time using contemporary reports.
		During the invasion scare of 1940-41, the Martello Towers once again found themselves in the front line and occupied by military forces.
		Tower W at Bawdsey in Suffolk, currently standing just 10 metres from an eroding cliff edge may be physically moved back from the brink of certain destruction.
	www.martello-towers.co.uk (270 words)

	The James Joyce Tower & Museum Sandycove Dun Laoghaire
		The James Joyce Tower was one of a series of Martello towers built to withstand an invasion by Napoleon and now holds a museum devoted to the life and works of James Joyce, who made the tower the setting for the first chapter of his masterpiece, Ulysses.
		Beautifully located eight miles south of Dublin on the coast road, this tower is the perfect setting for a museum dedicated to Joyce, a writer of international renown who remains, world-wide, the writer most associated with Dublin.
		The Joyce Tower Society ran the museum for the first two or three years with the aid of a colourful series of curators and voluntary helpers, but were beset by financial difficulties which were finally resolved by selling the Tower and its contents to the Irish Tourist Board.
	www.dun-laoghaire.com /dir/jjtower.html (499 words)

	Fortress Saint John - Carleton Martello Tower
		Martello Tower was originally built during the War of 1812 to guard the land approaches to the city, but it was not completed until after the war.
		From 1866 to 1869 the tower was used as a barracks.
		The only major architectural change to the tower was the addition of a concrete fire command post built on top of the tower.
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /heritage/Fortress/MartelloTower.htm (312 words)

	Martello Towers of the Essex shore.
		The threat of invasion, or at the minimum, coastal naval action by the French navy, prompted the building of a chain of Martello Towers along the south coast; this was to follow with instructions to build a chain of towers along the east coast from Point Clear near St Osyth, to Aldburgh in Suffolk.
		The tower at Harwich, said to be the largest, was mounted with ten 24 pounders in 1848.
		The Jaywick Martello Tower was opened in September 2005 as a venue for a range of interesting and innovative art projects.
	www.historyhouse.co.uk /articles/martello.html (560 words)

	Kingston Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name Martello is a corruption of the word Mortella, which refers to Mortella Point on the Mediterranean Island of Corsica.
		Eventually the tower was captured, but not until it was invaded from the landward side.
		A Martello tower is typically a squat, round, thick-walled tower with guns mounted on a flat roof.
	www.heritagekingston.org /murney-martello.html (164 words)

	MARTELLO TOWER - Online Information article about MARTELLO TOWER
		The Martello tower was introduced in consequence of an incident of the See also:
		The tower was afterwards retaken by the French from the Corsicans.
		southern and eastern coasts, which in certain parts are lined with these towers at short intervals.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MARTELLO_TOWER.html (681 words)

	martello
		The Martello Tower is being restored, it is being funded from a grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
		With the Tower restored to its former glory, the first floor will be installed with digital equipment and software designed to exploit the drum-like interior space.
		The Tower was official opened by Mark Storor and a 4 year old from Jaywick who let go of a bunch of balloons attached to a CD and booklet, which signaled the letting go of the ribbons by childdren from Bishops Park School.
	shewolf.notnet.co.uk /jaywick/places/martello/index.shtml (711 words)

	Ideas for the future of Martello Tower P
		A report on the future of the Martello Tower that is at the centre of exciting plans to regenerate Felixstowe South Seafront is saying it could become a Window on the World and a significant asset for both the resort and the East of England.
		Martello Tower P was one of five built along the Felixstowe seafront in the 19th century.
		The Tower's immediate future was guaranteed by the partnership between the Council and Bloor Homes, which will see a leisure park with activities for all ages, funded by a housing development.
	www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk /yourfreetime/arts/martello (437 words)

	National Trust \| Orford Ness \| Military history
		This occulting lighthouse (there is a dark area in the rotation of the beam created by a blanked out section on the glass top) was one of two which could be lined up to guide ships through dangerous shingle and sandbanks.
		The keepers lived in cottages attached to either side of the tower with the base of the tower acting as a common hall for both.
		Defences were mounted here from at least the 17th century but the most significant defensive structure is the great Martello Tower which is the most northerly of the east coast towers built against a potential Napoleonic invasion.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-orfordness/w-orfordness-history.htm (285 words)

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		The Carleton Martello Tower is located overlooking both the city and the entrance of the Bay of Fundy.
		Martello towers were placed at sites chosen to strengthen or protect larger forts or isolated locations.
		This original stone tower was designed as an elevated gun platform and is one of 16 such towers built in Canada between 1796 and 1848.
	www.rvtravelog.com /canada.dir/martello_tower.dir/martello_tower1.htm (521 words)

	Martello Tower No.3 in Folkestone, Kent - South East England - UK Attraction
		Martello Tower No.3 is one of seventy-four defensive towers built between 1805 and 1808 during the napoleonic period along the south coast from Folkestone in Kent to Seaford in Sussex.
		The tower lies adjacent to the East Cliff and The Warren, internationally renowned for it’s geology and wildlife.
		Unfortunately, as of 2004, the tower is no longer open to the public.
	www.ukattraction.com /south-east-england/martello-tower.htm (185 words)

	Martello Tower
		The tower at Seapoint, dating from 1804, officially called Martello Tower No. 14, is entered by a recently added outside stone stairway to the first floor with a ground floor accessed by a stone stairwell in the very thick walls.
		Indeed, should the Sandycove Tower (Joyce Tower) be an object lesson in the admirable re-use of an important example of our architectural heritage, then this Martello Tower at Seapoint, which is in good repair, will certainly prove to be so too.
		Martello Towers got their name from a similar structure on the island of Corsica following a naval engagement at Mortella Point in 1794.
	www.familyhistory.ie /martello1.htm (923 words)

	Martello Tower (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strong round towers were built by the military under the 'national defence Act of 1804'.
		Martello Towers (55K JPEG) are a curiosity to most people and their history is not widely known.
		The Martello Tower in Portmarnock is on the coast road and many people enjoy a walk alongside it on the the footpath overlooking the Irish sea.
	www.helens.ie /pages/mrtlo.htm (294 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though the Martello Tower at Hambantota is not spread in a large area, it could also be considered as a defence watchtower.
		The Martello Tower (from Martello in Corsica, where a fortification of this kind made a strong resistance to an English naval force in 1794) is a small circular-shaped fort, with thick walls, and embrasure look-outs atop, and armoury and living space in the covered room below.
		Since this Martello Tower at Hambantota is a legacy of our colonial history, it is imperative that authorities concerned take very early steps to protect and preserve it for posterity.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/01/25/fea09.html (386 words)

	Prince of Wales (Martello) Tower, Point Pleasant Park
		In the spring of 1796, with fear of the possible arrival of the French West Indies fleet, construction of the Martello Tower commenced.
		By 1813, the Tower mounted four 6-pounder guns on garrison carriages on its barrack level, two 24-pounder guns on traversing platforms and six 24-pounder carronades on traversing slides on top.
		While neither the Prince of Wales Tower nor any other fortifications of Halifax’s defence system ever fired a shot in anger, shots were fired at the clearing of the Martello Tower on an early winter morning in March, 1840.
	www.mikecampbell.net /martellotower.htm (373 words)

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