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Dawes Battery and Fort Macquarie

Dawes Battery and Fort Macquarie, c. 1840–1850
Artist unknown
Bequest of David Scott Mitchell, 1907
Watercolour
PX*D 123, f. 6b

Two of Greenway's less successful designs were Fort Macquarie and Dawes Point Battery whose crenellated medieval towers and walls were ridiculed as obsolete and ineffective for the purposes of modern warfare.