The Eastern Frontier’s Martello tower
Nov 05, 2021
2 minutes
In 1822, a British officer, Lieutenant Colonel HM Scott, established a military post along the Cape’s Eastern Frontier and called it Fort Beaufort in honour of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, father to Lord Charles Somerset, the then governor of the Cape.
By the 1840s, a Martello tower, first encountered by the British on the island of Corsica almost 50 years earlier,
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