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Dawes Battery and Fort Macquarie c1840-50

Dawes Battery and Fort Macquarie c1840-50

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[a623018 / PX*D 123, 6b]

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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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War

Fort Macquarie

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Square castellated fort built on Bennelong Point, incorporating some of the guns taken from HMS Supply.