land defences

On the whole, a good day's work, he decided, and he had been warmly thanked over the wires by a Brigadier-General at Harwich for his arrest and exposure of a man who had in his possession a very wonderful plan of the Felixstowe land defences. He lit a cigarette and glanced at his watch.

The fort was constructed in the 1840s to house an army garrison as part of land defences for the dockyard.

Only when land defences were strengthened was the navy able to push farther out to sea and offer greater protection to British transatlantic commerce.