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Martello tower
Martello tower Mar*tel"lo tow`er [It. martello hammer. The name was orig. given to towers erected on the coasts of Sicily and Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles the Fifth, which prob. orig. contained an alarm bell to be struck with a hammer. See Martel.] (Fort.) A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. Note: The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794.

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- Martello towers are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary...
- Murney Tower is a Martello tower in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, whose construction dates to January 1846. The Tower was built in response to the Oregon...
- Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of...
- historic buildings include a 16th-century moot hall and a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. A third of its housing consists of second homes. Visitors are drawn...
- Meelick Martello Tower is a Martello tower constructed on Moran Island in the River Shannon between Meelick, County Galway and Clonahenoge, County Offaly...
- Jaywick Martello Tower is a renovated Martello tower at Jaywick, 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south-west of Clacton-on-Sea, Es****. It now functions as an arts, heritage...
- The Fort East Martello Museum & Gardens (also known as the East Martello Tower), is a historic site located at 3501 South Roosevelt Boulevard, Key West...
- the last Martello towers to be built was Fort Denison in Sydney harbour. The most recent descendants of the Martello Towers are the flak towers that the...
- to place the three towers in Schmelz, Prater & Floridsdorf. Battle of Berlin Defence of the Reich **** architecture Martello tower George Pagliero (2008)...
- 29 Martello towers and battery installations were constructed or partially constructed in the Greater Dublin Area between 1803 and 1808. The towers were...