16 – American Independence 1770 – 1800
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The wars with France rumbled on during the 18th century, to be followed by the American Wars of Independence. A failed attack on Edinburgh from John Paul Jones’s American privateers in 1779 triggered the creation of a Gun Battery and then a Fort at Leith in 1790.
Location of Leith Fort
Leith Fort Entrance
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