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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 17
The Halifax Citadel, 1825-60: A Narrative and Structural History
by John Joseph Greenough
Appendix I: The Sally Ports
In the original plan of the Citadel, seven sally ports were
envisaged, including three in the west curtain (one leading to the
caponier), one in the north front re-entrant, one in the south front
re-entrant, and two in the east curtain. Of these, three were abandoned
(the one leading to the caponier and the two in the east curtain) and
two were added, at the redan ends of the east faces of the eastern
salients, for a final total of six sally ports.
Of these six, the two in the west curtain were built to Colonel
Nicolls's original design; since the surviving documents for much of the
building during the early period are sketchy, we know little about them.
A plan and sections drawn to illustrate alterations in the privy
drainage in 1856 has two sections of the south sally
port.1
The four remaining sally ports were provided in the 1836 estimate;
the east ones in item 3 and the reentrant ones in item 4.2 In
1857, an item providing for the construction of doors for the ditch ends
of the sally ports was inserted in the Ordnance annual estimate. Because
of an administrative error made in London, funds were authorized for
only one of the six doors, and the item had to be included again in the
following year's estimate.3
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