Martello Tower--Portmarnock,Ireland (Photo by Luke Carroll) |
These towers are the main towers in a group of towers that protected the coast of Ireland and England because they were afraid that Napoleon was going to invade these two countries in the early 1800s.
If Napoleon's ships were spotted the men in the towers would light a fire on the tower roof and the other towers would see and light their own fires to communicate with each other. The towers were never used because Napoleon never came.
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