Talk:Citadel Hill

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Is Citadel Hill a city, a fort, or a portion of Halifax? -- Zoe It's a fort at the center of Halifax. Will take a look at the entry -- Daniel MacKay

What do these sentences mean?:

City center, subterrainian and moated, the Citadel is a bulky hillock fortress with internal courtyard and clear harbour view from armoured ramparts

The city of Halifax has been built around it.

A noon gun is still sounded daily by military animators Animators? -- Zoe

Uh... actors? I'm not sure if Halifax puts on a show for the tourists, or if the actual city militia carries out ceremonial duties. -- Stephen Gilbert 01:56 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

They actually are called animators but maybe we should use a different word. Also, this page links completely incorrectly from "Deva" -- Daniel MacKay

But what does City center, subterrainian and moated mean? The Citadel is in the center of the city of Halifax, or its city center is subterranean and moated? -- Zoe

I have completely overhauled it, including much of the original text. Daniel MacKay

The citadel is not moated, this is a misconception. The 40 ft ditch that surronds the citadel is a 'Dry Ditch' a moat was ineffective as a defence mechanism durring this time period since armour and weapons did not burden soilders to the point that they could not swim. A dry ditch however with a musket gallery and artilary guns armed with canister shot and grapeshot directed into the ditch was a great defence mechanism since the ditch forces the enemy into a tight position where soilders can be easily targeted. How do I know this? I work there as an animator. There is not a city militia, we are in a sense 'actors' but we are called animators since we are re-enacting a certian time period, 1869 to be exact.

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