Vintage St Mawes Post Card
by Terri Waters
Title
Vintage St Mawes Post Card
Artist
Terri Waters
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
An image of St Mawes Castle Cornwall turned into a vintage postcard.
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St Mawes Castle, like Pendennis on the opposite side of the Fal, was built by Henry VIII in the 1540s to defend the Fal estuary against the French and Spanish.
After the civil war, the castles had a new lease of life in the later 1790s and early 1800s when there was threat of invasion by Napoleonic forces.
They were again a crucial part of British defenses in the First and Second World Wars of the 20th century, and were only finally decommissioned in 1956.
It used to be thought that, unlike Pendennis Castle which defended itself to the bitter end against parliamentary forces withstanding a five-month siege until starvation, disease and death finally forced the royalist troops to surrender on August 17, the royalist St Mawes Castle surrendered to parliamentary forces in 1646 without a single shot being fired. But a cannonball unearthed in a garden in Carrick Way suggests the truth may be otherwise.
Though the cannonball was found a canon's range away, it could not have been fired from the castle, as all the guns face out to sea, which raises questions about where it came from.
One possible explanation is that Fairfax's army assembled on the land above the village and fired a cannon as a warning to those inside.
Though it fell short of the castle, it was perhaps this warning, which may have been secretly pre-arranged, that led the governor Major Bonithan to surrender to General Fairfax on Tuesday, March 13 in 1646.
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