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Updated: May 9, 2025
Bomb-proof magazines were placed in the side of the hill; and more than twenty guns of heavy calibre, 32 and 64-pounders, were mounted on double casemate carriages; and it was intended to mount many more. A formidable defence was this expected to be against the gunboats. We also made a fine military road, thirty feet wide, cut out of the side of the bluff, and ascending gradually to the summit.
It mounted six 64-pounders; and the chambers beneath the gun platform I took to be the magazine, general store-room, and soldiers' quarters.
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