00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.864191 CaOODSP 20221107161457 cr ||||||||||| 181105s1976 onc #o f|0| 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- R61-2/1-15E-PDF R61-2/1-15 Saunders, Ivan J., 1944- A history of Martello towers in the defence of British North America, 1796-1871 [electronic resource] / by Ivan J. Saunders. Report of the 1972 Archaeological Excavations of the Market Shoal Tower, Kingston, Ontario Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs, 1976. 224 p. : ill. Canadian historic sites: occasional papers in archaeology and history ; no. 15 Digitized edition from print [by the History of Parks Canada Electronic Library]. On added title page: Report of the 1972 Archaeological Excavations of the Market Shoal Tower, Kingston, Ontario by Donald A. Harris. Includes bibliographic references. "Martello towers were a distinctive and popular form of light permanent artillery defence in British North America from 1796 to 1846, where sixteen of them were built in that time. After 1848 their value diminished in the face of a variety of changing political and technological conditions until they were finally rendered obsolete by major advances in ordnance technology in the 1860s. This type of tower originated largely by accident, but it quickly found a wide and enduring acceptance in British North America because it met a great variety of political, military and economic needs. Martello towers often offered the only practical means of beginning or augmenting the permanent defences of important colonial centres. Throughout the whole era of the construction of masonry fortifications in British North America, Martello towers were a substitute for larger and more desirable but financially impracticable works of defence"--Abstract, p. 6. Includes abstract in French. gccst Historic sites gccst Canadian history Harris, Donald A. Parks Canada. Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Canadian historic sites. Occasional papers in archaeology and history ; no. 15. (CaOODSP)9.842684 PDF 92.91 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/pc/R61-2-1-15-eng.pdf