Meanings of sea-coast defences in English

For further information concerning our system of sea-coast defences, the reader is referred to House Doc.

We should have a good navy, and our sea-coast defences should be put in the finest possible condition.

Money spent upon sea-coast defences is spent among our own people, and all goes back again among the people.

Omitting for the present all discussion of sea-coast defences, let us examine more particularly the character and influence of fortifications on land frontiers.

This subject will be alluded to again in the Notes on Sea-coast Defences, and Permanent Fortifications.