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Littlehampton
Fort
When
built and garrisoned the fort was then considered as being self-sufficient
as it would hold enough water and supplies to withstand a siege until
support troops were able to arrive.
In
1870, just sixteen years after the fort was completed, a survey was
started by Edward Cardwell, Secretary of State for War. The objectives of
this survey were to improve the efficiency of the army by making
reductions in unnecessary expenditure. Three years later in 1873 the
survey had been finished and it was decided that both Littlehampton fort
and Shoreham could no longer keep up with the technology of the arms, as
by that time the guns design were much bigger and heavier and the ramparts
of the forts were not suitable, so from that time both forts were taken
out of action.
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