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Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site
🇨🇦 Canadá · siglo XIX
Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site is a 19th-century coastal artillery fort located on Esquimalt Harbour in Colwood, British Columbia, Canada. It was constructed in the 1890s by the Royal Marine Artillery to defend the Esquimalt Naval Base. It consists of three gun batteries, and was in continuous use by the Royal Canadian Artillery until 1956.
The site is adjacent to Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada. Both the fort and lighthouse are managed and presented to the public by Parks Canada.
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Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site ranks #2767 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #19 of the 23 mapped in Canadá. Fundado en 1895 — uno de los 407 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XIX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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