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Buy your own ISLAND: Fort designed to defend Britain from Napoleon goes on sale for £400,000
UK Daily Mail ^
| June 6, 2018
| Simon Rushton
Posted on 06/06/2018 7:37:56 AM PDT by C19fan
A historic island fort is being sold for less than the price of a one-bedroom flat in London.
Stack Rock Fort, off the coast of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, was built to defend Britain from an invasion from France's Napoleon III.
Made up of three floors with spiral staircases leading to each one, with cannon rooms, former sleeping quarters, the island provides a 360-degree view of the Haven waterway.
The average cost of buying a home in London is £471,944 and the average cost in Wales is £152,999, according to the UK Land Registry.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: fort; france; milfordhaven; napoleoniii; pembrokeshire; stackrockfort; unitedkingdom; wales
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The Brits got freaked out when Napoleon III took power. They built a series of fortifications. The most famous was Fort Nelson to protect Portsmouth and Southampton from the land side.
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:37:56 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:42:32 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
I don’t want to live anywhere near that place.
They’ve gone loony.
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:42:45 AM PDT
by
chris37
("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
To: C19fan
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:43:26 AM PDT
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: C19fan
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:44:28 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
Napoleon III? Wasn’t he the paper tiger who promptly got defeated in the Franco-Prussian war and had to cede the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine as a spoil of the war?
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:44:45 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: C19fan
Says it was built in 1850-1852....It doesn’t make sense.
Napoleon I died in about 1819, right?
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:45:41 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
To: SMARTY
OK-They say ‘Napoleon III)
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:46:38 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
To: Vigilanteman
Napoleon III? Wasn’t he the paper tiger who promptly got defeated in the Franco-Prussian war and had to cede the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine as a spoil of the war? The fort was built about two decades earlier, when he was seen by many as a real tiger.
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:50:14 AM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: BenLurkin
A fixer upper indeed, but imagine the possibilities... calling Chip and Joanna....
Inside photos
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:53:18 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
To: C210N
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posted on
06/06/2018 7:58:03 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: C19fan
It'd sell better with the following:
- Cannons
- Electricity, lights and appliances
- A full bath on each floor
- A modern kitchen
- A boat dock.
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posted on
06/06/2018 8:12:40 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: C19fan
What’s the property taxes on it?
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posted on
06/06/2018 8:13:07 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: C19fan
Great place for a recluse once drones are available for grocery delivery.
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posted on
06/06/2018 8:19:49 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: DannyTN
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posted on
06/06/2018 8:23:32 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Bratch
Looks like a flotilla could have reduced that in short order
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posted on
06/06/2018 8:24:40 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Hanged not hung.)
To: chris37
They've always been silly.
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posted on
06/06/2018 8:25:00 AM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: C19fan
May be a good purchase for Jeffrey Epstein. Lot’s of European countries nearby with a low age of consent.
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06/06/2018 8:29:32 AM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: C19fan
That’s just absolutely cool. I’d live there in a heartbeat (with at least an updated, comfy apartment added in)...and a boat.
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06/06/2018 8:43:07 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: C19fan
The cops will drag you off that little island for any violation of Britain’s Islamic blasphemy laws.
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