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Coastal Fortifications In Scotland
Coastal fortifications in Scotland played a vital role during the World Wars, protecting shipping as they mustered to convoy. New fortifications were built and old defences were also rebuilt or strengthened around the Scottish coast in case of invasion. New technologies like Radar were also deployed. First World War (1914-1918) There were over forty seven coastal defence locations in Scotland during the First World War. Ayrshire *Ardeer Battery, Ardeer, North Ayrshire, Ardeer, North Ayrshire Clyde Defences *Cloch Point To Dunoon Anti-submarine Boom, Firth of Clyde *Ardhallow Battery, Dunoon, Cowal, Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute *Dunoon Battery, Castle gardens *Portkil Battery, Kilcreggan, Rosneath_Peninsula, Roseneath peninsula *Cloch Point Battery, Gourock, Inverclyde *Fort Matilda Battery, Greenock, Inverclyde Dee Defences *Torry Battery, Aberdeen Forth Defences *Firth of Forth Anti-submarine Booms, Firth of Forth *Charles Hill Battery, Dalgety Bay, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wars
A world war is an international conflict which involves all or most of the world's major powers. Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World WarI (1914–1918) and World WarII (1939–1945), although historians have also described other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Seven Years' War and the Cold War. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' cited the first known usage in the English language to a Scottish newspaper, ''The People's Journal'', in 1848: "A war among the great powers is now necessarily a world-war." The term "world war" is used by Karl Marx and his associate, Friedrich Engels, in a series of articles published around 1850 called ''The Class Struggles in France''. Rasmus B. Anderson in 1889 described an episode in Teutonic mythology as a "world war" (Swedish: ''världskrig''), justifying this description by a line in an Old Norse epic poem, "Völuspá: fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
