{"id":12410,"date":"2021-09-15T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12410"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:37:13","slug":"fort-week-ill-have-mine-on-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/fort-week-ill-have-mine-on-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Week – I’ll Have Mine on Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we reach the mid-point of Fort Week, I’ve run out of alliterative titles so I’m now resorting to puns. This is Fort Pat\u00e9, a Vauban fortification on an islet in the Gironde estuary in France built at the end of the 17th century. Along with Fort M\u00e9doc and the citadel of Blaye, it defended the approaches to the city of Bordeaux. It had a garrison of 20 men, but we can’t find any info’ about how many cannon it had.<\/p>\n

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SSS-8173<\/a> – Fort Pat\u00e9 – \u00a32.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we reach the mid-point of Fort Week, I’ve run out of alliterative titles so I’m now resorting to puns. This is Fort Pat\u00e9, a Vauban fortification on an islet in the Gironde estuary in France built at the end … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fort Week - I'll Have Mine on Toast. 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