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Ramparts of Empire
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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

About the Author


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.

Reviews


‘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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