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Plymouth Royal Citadel
A bastioned artillery fortress
Construction of the Royal Citadel, designed by King Charles II's (r. 1660-85) engineer Sir Bernard de Gomme, began in 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Its guns and …
( top plaque )
This tablet is erected to the Memory of John Smeaton F.R.S. the distinguished civil engineer who was born in 1724 and died in 1792 at Austhorpe Lodge Leeds in the County of York He designed this lighthouse and erected it on Eddysto…