Martello-tower Sentence Examples

The Martello tower was introduced in consequence of an incident of the French revolutionary wars.

While the Martello tower owes its reputation and its widespread adoption in Great Britain to a single incident of modern warfare, the round masonry structure entered by a door raised high above the base is to be found in many lands, and is one of the earliest types of masonry fortification.

The small Martello tower contains a museum about Guernsey shipwrecks, with many salvaged artifacts and related illustrations.