[CatoRenasci]

The state of those harbor defenses in the 1890's was not so great. Lots of left over civil war artillery. The modern coastal defenses were not really in place unitl after the Spanish American War. Most of the installations you'll see were either built before 1865 or between 1895 and 1945.

[longfellow]

Remember what Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca about the Germans invading NY.