Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol The Military Landscape from Pre-history to the Present

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- A survey of the military landscape of Gloucestershire and Bristol based on fieldwork and documentary evidence - The text provides the social, political, historical and military contexts for the military landscape of Gloucestershire and Bristol - Appendices supplementing the text with comprehensive details of the specific classes of sites and monuments - Illustrations demonstrate the wide range of structures that make up the military landscape of Gloucestershire and Bristol Gloucestershire’s strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol’s importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important throughout the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The Normans built substantial castles at Bristol, Gloucester and Berkeley, scene of Edward II’s murder, with many more of earth and timber. Many figured in the conflicts between rival factions culminating in the Battle of Tewkesbury. In the Civil War, Bristol underwent two sieges and Gloucester another and one of the last battles, at Stow, followed continuous skirmishing. The next centuries saw volunteer forces established, formalised by the state by the end of Victoria’s reign, to counter threats external and internal. A nascent aircraft industry would develop into aircraft factories and airfields in the First World War with further development of training and aircraft storage facilities for the newly formed RAF during the inter-war period. Anti-invasion defences were constructed in the Second World War, but the primary effort was in logistics: bases for US troops; RAF and USAAF training airfields and depots; and communications facilities. This last aspect, along with intelligence gathering, continued into the Cold War and beyond.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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