www.ns.legion.ca 23 Citadel Hill (Fort George) continued.... Town clock Prince Edward, Duke of Kent commissioned a clock tower in 1800 prior to his return to England. The Town Clock opened on October 20, 1803, at a location on the east slope of Citadel Hill on Barrack (now Brunswick) Street and has kept time for the community ever since. The War of 1812 The Third citadel received hasty repairs and a new magazine during the War of 1812 in case of an American raid but a new fortification was not constructed as naval superiority provided by the British Royal Navy precluded any chance of an American siege. By 1825 all the works except the powder magazine, were in ruins. The Fourth Citadel The current star-shaped fortress, or citadel, was completed in 1856, during the Victorian Era, following twenty-eight years of construction. This massive masonry-construction fort was designed to repel a land-based attack by United States forces and was inspired by the designs of Louis XIV's commissary of fortifications Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban –a starshaped hillock citadel with internal courtyard and clear harbour view from armoured ramparts.. Citadel Hill, circa 1870. Cannons facing the harbour.
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