Time Team - Dobové vykopávky / Time Team 1994

11.2.2007 | Sandgate, Kent - Sharpe's Redoubt

Obsah epizody

Shorncliffe Redoubt.On the 1st February 1793, the new French Republic declared war on Britain. Bracing itself for an expected invasion, the British began improving her defences. One year later, Parliament bought land at Shorncliffe and built a redoubt [a fort], a piece of land which was considered as an obvious point of attack from the French.

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