Guard tower

Torre del Verger, guard tower located at Banyalbufar, Majorca, Spain.

Guard tower serves as a general term for any military tower providing vigilance, and henceforth guarding a certain area. These towers are usually operated by military personnel, and are structures built in areas of established control. These include military bases and cities occupied by military forces. This type of fortification is a variation on the tower incorporated into the walls of castles from history, and are, in the modern day, equipped with such facilities as heavier weapons than those carried by infantry and searchlights.

Notable guard towers

Alcatraz guard towers^[1]
Auschwitz II guard towers
Tower of London^[2]
Yuma Territorial Prison 1876 guard tower.

Gallery

A guard tower at the C.A. Holliday Unit of a state prison in Huntsville, Texas

References

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Fortifications

Ancient history

Post-classical history

Modern history

18th century and earlier	Abwurfdach Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Counterscarp Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Entrenchment Flèche Gorge Hornwork Lunette Orillon Ostrog Outwork Place-of-arms Polygonal fort Presidio (Spanish America) Punji sticks Ravelin Redan Redoubt Retrenchment Sandbag Scarp Sconce Schanze Sea fort Station Star fort Tenaille

19th century	Barbed wire Barbette Border outpost Bunker Coastal artillery Gun turret Land battery Land mine Martello tower Outpost Trench warfare Sangar Wire obstacles

20th century	Admiralty scaffolding Air-raid shelter Barbed tape Blast shelter Blast wall Border barrier Bremer wall Concertina wire Defensive fighting position British "hedgehog" road block Czech hedgehog Dragon's teeth Electric fence Fallout shelter Fire support base Flak tower Hardened aircraft shelter Hesco bastion Main Line of Resistance Revetment Sentry gun Spider hole Underground hangar

By topography

By role

By design

See also: Category

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