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1794 D. Dundas Dispatch 21 Feb. in Ann. Reg. App. to Chron. 101*/1 Expecting little opposition from Mortella tower.

1794 D. Dundas Dispatch 21 Feb. in Ann. Reg. App. to Chron. 101*/1 The same day we began to batter the tower of Mortella.]

1803 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 9 Dec. (1812) II. 140 What were known to our officers under the name of Martello Towers, a species of edifice so called from a memorable instance of one at Martello, in Corsica; where, by a tower of this sort, garrisoned by some ten or a dozen men, and mounted with about two guns, a ship of the line of ours, and a frigate, were, during the last war, completely foiled and driven off.

1813 J. Lambert Trav. L. Canada & U.S. (ed. 2) 41 Four martello towers are erecting on the heights [of Quebec].

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 470 A martello is built circular, and thus difficult to hit.

1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxvii The wide water, the Martello tower.

1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island iv. 30 Kingsport..has in its park a martello tower, autographed all over by tourists.

1978 A. Ritchie & G. Ritchie Anc. Monuments Orkney 81 The impressive Martello Towers, built to guard the deepwater inlet of Longhope between North Walls and South Walls at the SE end of the island of Hoy.

1982 G. M. Fraser Flashman & Redskins 122 There were two huge towers, like martellos, at opposite corners.