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This defence programme is known by the name "model towers and redoubts, 1811 type". Their construction programme was begun in 1812 and was originally intended to run for ten years, but it was abandoned on
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Napoleon I wished to organise France's coastal defences and so demanded the construction of a fortification combining powder magazines, food storehouses and gunners' lodgings in one building
Napoleon's idea was that the cannons in coastal batteries were very vulnerable to enemy raids and so they
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could be made safer by combining these elements in a single building. As a coastal defensive chain, they can be compared to the United
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Batteries, réduits, tours, forts, casemates... de
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