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Middle Head battery c1880-1900

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Middle Head battery c1880-1900

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Charles Bayliss

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National Library of Australia

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Bayliss, Charles

National Library of Australia

Defending colonial Sydney

For more than a century, Sydney faced recurrent and often well-founded fears of raids and even invasion. The British Empire's enemies and rivals sent warships into the Pacific to annexe territories, and Sydney was a potentially desirable conquest. Fortress Sydney grew out of anticipated dangers that could not be ignored.

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Middle Head

Headland in Sydney Harbour, now part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, which from 1806 to the 1960s contained important defensive fortifications.

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