Victor T C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5406614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor T C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor T C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH V T C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part two
(1995). Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part two: description. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 77-106
Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part one
This paper examines the building and development of the British fortifications on Brimstone Hill, St Kitts. The Hill was first fortified by the English when a small gun battery was built in 1690. Then, in the early 18th century an extensive Refuge Fortress was built. This was besieged and taken by the French in 1782, but was returned to the British by treaty in 1783. Between the later 1780s and the Napoleonic Wars, the defences on Brimstone Hill …
Chatham and London
This paper describes and discusses the changing form of the English land fortress over a period of nearly 50 years from 1870.1 Although the fortresses at Portsmouth, Plymouth and elsewhere, whose construction had been authorized under the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom (1859) were practically complete by 1870, the ensuing several decades formed one of the most important periods in the history of English land fortification. …
The Later Nineteenth-Century Land Defences of Chatham
The founding of Chatham dockyard in the mid-sixteenth century led to the Medway valley becoming one of the most heavily defended areas in Britain. Although the dockyard declined in importance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it revived with the coming of steam dredging and the steam warship. This paper describes in outline the various sixteenth- to early nineteenth-century defence works on the river and around Chatham. Chatham wa…
Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part one
This paper examines the building and development of the British fortifications on Brimstone Hill, St Kitts. The Hill was first fortified by the English when a small gun battery was built in 1690. Then, in the early 18th century an extensive Refuge Fortress was built. This was besieged and taken by the French in 1782, but was returned to the British by treaty in 1783. Between the later 1780s and the Napoleonic Wars, the defences on Brimstone Hill …
Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part two
(1995). Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part two: description. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 77-106
Chatham and London
This paper describes and discusses the changing form of the English land fortress over a period of nearly 50 years from 1870.1 Although the fortresses at Portsmouth, Plymouth and elsewhere, whose construction had been authorized under the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom (1859) were practically complete by 1870, the ensuing several decades formed one of the most important periods in the history of English land fortification. …
The Later Nineteenth-Century Land Defences of Chatham
The founding of Chatham dockyard in the mid-sixteenth century led to the Medway valley becoming one of the most heavily defended areas in Britain. Although the dockyard declined in importance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it revived with the coming of steam dredging and the steam warship. This paper describes in outline the various sixteenth- to early nineteenth-century defence works on the river and around Chatham. Chatham wa…
The Later Nineteenth-Century Land Defences of Chatham
The founding of Chatham dockyard in the mid-sixteenth century led to the Medway valley becoming one of the most heavily defended areas in Britain. Although the dockyard declined in importance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it revived with the coming of steam dredging and the steam warship. This paper describes in outline the various sixteenth- to early nineteenth-century defence works on the river and around Chatham. Chatham wa…
Chatham and London
This paper describes and discusses the changing form of the English land fortress over a period of nearly 50 years from 1870.1 Although the fortresses at Portsmouth, Plymouth and elsewhere, whose construction had been authorized under the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom (1859) were practically complete by 1870, the ensuing several decades formed one of the most important periods in the history of English land fortification. …
Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part one
This paper examines the building and development of the British fortifications on Brimstone Hill, St Kitts. The Hill was first fortified by the English when a small gun battery was built in 1690. Then, in the early 18th century an extensive Refuge Fortress was built. This was besieged and taken by the French in 1782, but was returned to the British by treaty in 1783. Between the later 1780s and the Napoleonic Wars, the defences on Brimstone Hill …
Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part two
(1995). Brimstone Hill Fortress, St Kitts, West Indies. Part two: description. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 77-106
Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (3 works) · Fortress (chess (2 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)