. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. rORT HAMILTON, ROSE 1S-LAND,Built in 1708=1800. Seals o/°plcc72. J =JJ0. SPCCCVH OTt £is< C- 2LJ? 492 DEFENSES OF NARRAGANSET BAY, RHODE ISLAND ments of this excellent position, where eventually a strong fortificationmust be built. For Rose Island, where the government owns twenty-three acres ofland, the board of engineers proposed a small fort, on the site of thepresent unfinished work, three hundred and eighty-four yards in perime-ter, to mount nearly one hundred guns in barbette, chiefly on the threesea fronts. For Brentons Point
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. rORT HAMILTON, ROSE 1S-LAND,Built in 1708=1800. Seals o/°plcc72. J =JJ0. SPCCCVH OTt £is< C- 2LJ? 492 DEFENSES OF NARRAGANSET BAY, RHODE ISLAND ments of this excellent position, where eventually a strong fortificationmust be built. For Rose Island, where the government owns twenty-three acres ofland, the board of engineers proposed a small fort, on the site of thepresent unfinished work, three hundred and eighty-four yards in perime-ter, to mount nearly one hundred guns in barbette, chiefly on the threesea fronts. For Brentons Point, then the most important position of all those to befortified in Narraganset Bay, the board of engineers deemed it necessaryto construct, immediately, a powerful work, not only to defend the mainentrance against an enemys fleet, but to hold the position against a largeland force till it could be relieved by our own troops, which would requiretime to be organized and marched to the attack of the enemy. It properlywas observed that the strength of the work should be fully equal to theobjects to be secured, that is to provide
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