Guns defending the Americas from the British feature in nearly all east coast ports

Guns which were trained on the British are a feature of nearly all the east coast places we visited in America and Canada.

Battery Park, New York is named after the battery of guns which were placed there. This is a picture of the park featuring the remains of a sculpture damaged in the 2001 atrocities.

Perhaps most surprising among the evidence of guns trained on the British is found at Anglophile Boston.

Particularly in "Old Ironside" the US Constitution, we so much enjoyed going over when we crossed the Charles River to Charlestown. The descendants of those independently-minded puritans, who founded Boston and Charlestown, were among the most determined to rid their "New World" of the crippling taxation and political control of their English cousins.

I was uploading a picture of the fort at Halifax complete with a tartan-clad sentry, when the laptop I write this blog on died completely. Unfortunately it contained the picture, but hopefully it can be salvaged from the hard disc. It illustrated yet more defenses against the British on the west coast of America. I also hope to be able to salvage a picture of the guns which were trained on the British at Quebec, that Canadian city which has a flavour of Ancien Regime France, yet its palaces are egalitarian... hotels and railway stations. Quebec has also retained its walls and fortifications. The resulting citadel is very picturesque on the approach from the St Laurence River. Just to complete the blog, here is a picture of the British fort at Halifax...

And here is a picture taken below Chateau Fontenac on the promenade above the defences...

And to finish, a picture of the defences around Quebec seen from the sea at night.