Several of the forts surrounding Plymouth were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of the country. The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom reported in 1860 and resulted in a huge building programme. Examples of the forts are:
- Agaton Fort
- Fort Austin
- Fort Bovisand
- Bowden Fort
- Brownhill Battery
- Cawsand Fort
- Crownhill Fort
- Drake's Island Battery
- Egg Buckland Keep
- Ernesettle Fort
- Fort Efford
- Forder Battery
- Hawkins Battery
- Knowle Battery
- Laira Battery
- Mount Edgcumbe Garden Battery
- Penlee Battery
- Picklecombe Fort
- Plymouth Breakwater Fort
- Polhawn Battery
- Raleigh Battery
- Fort Scraesdon
- Staddon Fort
- Stamford Fort
- Fort Tregantle
- Watch House Battery
- Whitesand Bay Battery
- Woodlands Fort
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“Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall!”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall!”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)