Fort Napoleon (Oostende)
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Fort Napoleon is one of the last remaining polygonal forts from Napoleonic times (1811-1815) - Ostend, Belgium
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[edit] Maps
 schematic map |
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 Fort Napoleon seen from the air |
[edit] History
 Marshall Hindenburg inspecting the site (1917) |
 Hindenburg battery captured by the Belgian army (1918) |
[edit] Fort Napoleon
 panoramic view |
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 dry moat |
 caponier |
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 view through a loophole of a caponier |
 Inside a caponier |
 Inside a caponier |
 view through window on caponier and counterscarp |
 Inside the fort |
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 kitchen |
 warehouse |
 flat roof |
 Roof |
[edit] Wall paintings by H-O Pieper
 'Der Barbar' - painting by H.-O. Pieper, a German soldier during WW I |
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 Town musicians of Bremen, persiflage by Heinrich-Otto Pieper |
 Saint Barbara, surrounded by cannons of the Hindenburg battery |
