Fort Royal (Plaisance)

Fort Royal was an English fort built in the Vauban style to protect against attackers armed with siege artillery and muskets. It contained three demi-bastions and one full bastion. The overlapping faces of the demi-bastions formed a flank that eliminated places close to the walls where an attacker could hide from musket fire. The full bastion had two flanks, providing additional protection along the fort’s most vulnerable face, the one containing the gate. A ditch was dug in front of the gate to make it more difficult to attack. The walls of Fort Royal were 5 metres high with a parapet to protect the cannons and soldiers, and by the summer of 1702 it had nearly reached completion.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Canada