Author: CRICK, TIMOTHY.
Title: Ramparts of Empire. The Fortifications of Sir William Jervois Royal Engineer, 1821-1897.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xx, 293; Frontispiece portrait, 13 full colour plates, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, chapter notes, select bibliography, index, original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, dustjacket, fine copy. Exeter; The Exeter Press Ltd.,; 2012. In the year 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, Aden, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, India, Ireland, Malta and later, Australia and New Zealand.

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