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Castle Williams could be a circular fortification of red arenaceous rock on the northwest purpose of Governors Island, a part of a system of forts designed and made within the early nineteenth century to shield the big apple town from service attack. It’s a outstanding landmark in the big apple Harbor. In conjunction with Fort Jay (Fort Columbus), it’s managed by the parkland Service as a part of Governors Island monument.Castle Williams was designed and erected between 1807 and 1811 underneath the direction of light colonel (later Colonel) dessert apple Williams, Chief Engineer of the Corps of Engineers and 1st Superintendent of the u. S. Academy at West Point, New York. The castle was one element of a defensive system for the inner harbor that enclosed Fort Columbus (later renamed Fort Jay) and therefore the South Battery on Governors Island; Castle Clinton at the southern tip of Manhattan, Fort Wood on island, and Fort Gibson on Ellis Island.Its pioneering style consisted of multiple levels of enclosed or fortified gun enplacements (casemates). It established a paradigm for yank coastal fortification style for the remainder of the nineteenth Century. The nearly circular fortification, forty feet high and 210 feet in diameter, was made of arenaceous rock walls seven to eight feet thick. Every of its four levels had thirteen casements that would every hold twenty six cannons of assorted caliber.
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