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St. Brelade No.2 Tower along St. Brelade’s Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. It is a Conway Tower currently being converted into a dwelling. The Conway Towers were designed by Field Marshall Henry Seymour Conway, Governor of Jersey, to defend the island against the French following their failed landing at St. Ouen’s Bay in 1779 during the American Revolutionary Wars. 14 were built in 1779-96, all round except for one square one. They were built of local granite (a particularly hard type of the stone) and eventually mounted 1x12 pdr carronade on a pivot mount on the top platform. Later, they were joined by 8 Martello Towers built in 1808–14 and 1834-37. In WWII the German’s adapted some of them for their own purposes.

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