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This kind of booty was worth a battle, even though Drake knew the city was well protected by a set of forts.
In 1823, Major Thomas Blanchard constructed Martello Tower on high ground behind the two forts, where soldiers could survey the surrounding land and coastline.
If they are embattled, it is like the old days in the West, with the invaders surrounded in their forts by the Indians to whom the region belonged.
The 6-km- (4-mile-) long, deep-water natural harbor, guarded by forts at its mouth and shielded from the winds by surrounding hills, caught the eye of the British Royal Navy early in the 18th century.
The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.