Coast Defence Batteries

Coast Defence Batteries of 1840 looked very similar to batteries of the Napoleonic Period and the guns employed were also little changed.  As can see from coast defence batteries built at this time, they tended to be five or so guns in barbette positions with a magazine and barracks to the rear.  The gorge was protected by a loopholed wall.  In some cases the face wall also had a Carnot wall or similar covering the dry moat. The images below show two earlier coastal batteries from the 1850s and then plans for coast defence batteries in the 1880s.  The latter two plans are from Permanent Fortification for English Engineers, Royal Engineers Institute, Major J. F. Lewis, 1890.  One shows a four gun battery on low terrain and the other a battery on hilly terrain.