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- SOUTH AFRICA – CAPE TOWN FORTIFICATIONS – THE PRINCE OF WALES BLOCKHOUSE – ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PLANS
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- A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…
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