Imperial fortress
One of four key British colonial military outposts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lord Salisbury described Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Halifax as Imperial fortresses at the 1887 Colonial Conference,[1] though by that point they had been so designated for decades.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Later historians have also given the title "imperial fortress" to St. Helena and Mauritius.[8]
The fortresses provided safe harbours; coal stores; and dockyards to protect and supply Royal Navy warships.[9][10] They had numbers of soldiers sufficient not only for local defence, but also to provide expeditionary forces to work with the Royal Navy, as well as stockpiles of military supplies.[11]