CONTENTS
GLOSSARY
CHRONOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: EARLY DAYS IN
AFRICA
CHAPTER TWO: APPOINTMENT IN
ALDERNEY
CHAPTER THREE: THE THREAT FROM
FRANCE
CHAPTER FOUR: THE 1859 ROYAL
COMMISSION
CHAPTER FIVE: DEFENDING THE NAVAL
BASES
CHAPTER SIX: MISSION TO CANADA AND THE UNITED
STATES
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE IRONCLAD
FORTS
CHAPTER EIGHT: IMPERIAL PROGRESS
CHAPFER NINE: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE THREAT
FROM RUSSIA
CHAPTER TEN: COAST DEFENCE, HONOURS AND
RETIREMENT
CHAPTER ELEVEN: JERVOIS IN CONTEXT
CHAPTER NOTES
APPENDIX A: Gazetteer: List of fortified works associated
with
Jervois
APPENDIX B: The Relative Industrial Strength of the Major
Powers in the 19th Century
APPENDIX C: The 'Battle of Dorking' and its
Successors
APPENDIX D: The Arming of the Coaling Stations,
1884
APPENDIX E: 'A Plan for Attacking the Seaboard of the
United States'
APPENDIX F: Jervois and the Channel Tunnel
(1883)
APPENDIX G: The Relative Value of the British Pound
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF PEOPLE & PLACES
Timothy Crick is qualified in mechanical
engineering and industrial design and has lectured in these
disciplines as well as in design history. He is a member of the
Fortress Study Group, the Coast Defense Study Group (US) and the
Palmerston Forts Society.
‘The book is admirably illustrated and well designed’
‘The book is as excellent read as well as being authoritative’
John Harris, Fortress Study Group Casemate, 94 May 2012
‘Exceptionally well illustrated, reproducing numerous plans,
diagrams and images, dominated by forts and other buildings, many
from national collections.’
‘Essential reading for students of the Victorian Army and the
Victorian Fortress.’ (Professor Andrew Lambert, British Journal for
Military History Volume 1 (1), October 2014)
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