Old Photograph Martello Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Martello Tower, South Walls, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The Martello tower was built in 1815 to protect British ships in the bay of Longhope against attack by American and French privateers, during the Napoleonic Wars, while they waited for a Royal Navy escort on their journey to Baltic ports. The towers were rearmed for World War I.



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