Where is Fort Charlotte?

Fort Charlotte is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 60.1554°, -1.1451°.

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Fort Charlotte

Fort Charlotte is a fort in the United Kingdom.

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Fort Charlotte is a historic fort or fortified site in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 60.1554°, -1.1451°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.

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Fort Charlotte in the centre of Lerwick, Shetland, is an artillery fort, roughly five sided, with bastions on each of three landward corners, and half-bastions on the corners of the seaward face.

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History

The first incarnation of the fort was built between 1652 and 1653 during the First Anglo-Dutch War. Little is known of the original structure and no trace of it has been found. The second structure was built on the same site by Robert Mylne under the orders of Charles II at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665 at a cost of £28,000. It held off a Dutch fleet in 1667 which thought it was far more heavily manned and gunned than it actually was. In fact, the walls were unfinished and there were few guns. At the end of the war it was slighted when the government decided not to station a garrison in Lerwick, and it was unmanned when the Dutch burnt it in 1673 during the Third…

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