coast-fortifications

Updated: July 11, 2025

'With a statesmanlike sagacity from which succeeding generations might have drawn a lesson, the leading men of the Roman Commonwealth perceived that all their coast-fortifications and coast-garrisons would prove inadequate unless the war-marine of the state were again placed on a footing that should command respect. It is a gloomy reflection that the leading men of our own great maritime country could not see this in 1860.

Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge - Sea-Power and Other Studies