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Fort Charlotte overlooks the strategic Sound of Bressay. It was built to defend the sound against Dutch and later French warships. Some sort of fortification was erected here during the first Anglo-Dutch War in 1652, though no trace of it is now visible. During the Second Dutch War in the 1660s a second fort was built, but never finished. The fort was not garrisoned during the Third Dutch War, though the Dutch did land and burn the abandoned barrack block here in 1673.