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It's a pentagonal fort, surrounded by a dry gap meant for being a back base for the England invasion. It is called Imperial fort.</pen></p><p>Some misfortunes made that Napoleon could never init this campagne and the military destiny of the building stopped even before beginning. It was occupied in turn by the French, the English, the Dutch and then the Germans, and suffered lots of neglects before becoming part of Flanders heritage.<p>The French use it as a wheaponnery depot till Napoleon's fall, then the fort becomes part of the Netherlands kingdom, under the ordens of William 1st who included it into the Wellington belt protecting the French kingdom. It is renamed William fort and becomes obsolete.<p>With the 1830 revolution, the building is renamed Napoleon fort and Belgium neutrality makes it loose the little importance remaining. In 1865, Ostende looses its fortified town function and in 1883 the fort is largely destroyed. It's with the occupying forces, in 1915, that it recovers a little importance by serving as a mess for the officers who let there some frescos, from which only one could be saved and is nowadays restored.<p>With the Germans' departure in 1918, the fort is abandonned anothe time and in 1932, the city communal administration installs there a local history museum which disappears with the Germans' coming back on 1940. Durinc the occupation it will serve firstas an accomadation for the German artillerymen, and then as a detention center for Gypsies swipped everywhere. They will nearly all let there life there. At the same time the occupying forces have finished the new Atlantic wall shelter construction, in reinforced concrete and at less than a hundred of meters from the fort. Chased away by the Allied, the Germans will let it neglected another time and marked by a sad cross.<p>From 1949 to 1956, it will be used as a game place by the neibourghood children, and will fall forgotten till 1976, when it will be listed as a monument but it will not prevent it from falling into disrepair.<p>It had to wait till 19996, when the Flemish Heritage Fundation take it under its kind protection, to revive for a some more glorious destiny. </td> <td width='110' align='center' valign='top'>  <br><br> <a href="javascript:vue('../pics/napo01.jpg','','',636,263)"><IMG SRC="../pics/napo01s.jpg" vspace=3 class='bo' WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=41 ALT=""></a> <a href="javascript:vue('../pics/napo02.jpg','','',627,210)"><IMG SRC="../pics/napo02s.jpg" vspace=3 class='bo' WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=33 ALT=""></a> <a href="javascript:vue('../pics/napo03.jpg','','',640,281)"><IMG SRC="../pics/napo03s.jpg" vspace=3 class='bo' WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=43 ALT=""></a> <a 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