Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2019 | Page 205

Another battery
on the way to
Fort De Windt
is ‘Fort Nassau,’
quite literally
hanging onto
the cliff. Many a
pirate or privateer
was deterred
from taking a
merchant ship by
the canons of this
battery.
BOUILLE
FORT NASSAU
The Battery
Concordia on the
edge of the eastern
cliff. Started by the
British, finished by
the French, used by
the Dutch.
CONCORDIA
A ring of fortifications
in 1781. It contains the largest
Along the route from the island’s cannon on the island. The other
one is Fort Nassau from about
main town Oranjestad to Fort
1750. This battery is literally
De Windt, you will pass two
clinging on to the edge of the
more accessible fortifications.
cliff. It proved a good choice of
One is the battery Bouillé,
named after the French marquis location for a fortification since
it became the most active in the
who ordered its construction
fight against privateering and
pirating some 40 years later.
On the east coast of the island,
the battery Concordia on the
cliff side at the end of the airport
runway is the best preserved
fortification of its kind. Debates
were held about it in the UK