Fort Quesnard

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Fort Quesnard
Creation time : 1850s
Castle type : Coastal fort
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Ashlar
Place: Saint Anne
Geographical location 49 ° 43 '43.8 "  N , 2 ° 9' 39.7"  W Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '43.8 "  N , 2 ° 9' 39.7"  W.
Height: m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference

Fort Quesnard is the ruin of a Victorian fort on the northeast tip of the Channel Island of Alderney . It belongs to the Eastern Forts and was created in the 1850s.

The fort was equipped with 7 cannons and 55 men.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Colin Partridge, Trevor Davenport: The Fortifications of Alderney . Alderney Publishers, Saint Anne. ISBN 0-9517156-0-7 . Pp. 72-81.

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