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Ramparts of Empire - The Fortifications of Sir William Jervois, Royal Engineer 1821 - 1897 (Hardcover)
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Ramparts of Empire - The Fortifications of Sir William Jervois, Royal Engineer 1821 - 1897 (Hardcover)
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William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a
result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification
against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the
nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging
study of his life and works. As the first comprehensive study of
this influential Victorian, the bookis an important contribution to
military and engineering history as well as to the history of
Imperial Britain. The text is richly illustrated with photographs
and plans of Jervois' forts, while supporting appendices provide a
mine of supplementary information. This includes a gazetteer of
Jervois' works and documentary evidence of his involvement in plans
for a Channel Tunnel and a proposal for attacking the seaboard of
the United States. In 1860, Palmerston's parliament sanctioned the
construction of the largest system of fortifications that the
British Isles had ever seen, or would ever see again, to defend
against a feared French invasion. For William Jervois, then a young
major in the Royal Engineers, his appointment as 'design leader' of
this programme was a major step in a career in fortress
construction that would see his work in Britain, the Channel
Islands, Ireland, Canada, Bermuda, India, and later, Australia and
New Zealand. Timothy Crick makes extensive use of extracts from
Jervois' diaries and illustrations of his fortresses to give the
reader a rounded picture of this Royal Engineer's wide-ranging
career. He also captures a real sense of the fears of invasion that
prevailed in this period. Throughout the book both the political
background and the technical considerations involved in
constructing forts and armaments are carefully explored to flesh
out the motivations in what is sometimes referred to as the 'Golden
Age' of British fort building.
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