Deal Castle was the centrepiece of the three Kentish Device Forts commissioned by Henry VIII in 1539 in response to the threat of a Franco-Imperial invasion. Its unique clover-leaf plan of circular bastions allowed artillery to cover the Goodwin Sands anchorage where enemy fleets could shelter. The muster at Deal in 1539 was the largest coastal military assembly in Kent since the Hundred Years War.
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c.24 gunners and garrison of around 120 men; 119 pieces of ordnance
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