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Prince's Lines
The Prince's Lines are part of the fortifications of Gibraltar, situated on the lower slopes of the north-west face of the Rock of Gibraltar. They are located at a height of about on a natural ledge above the Queen's Lines, overlooking the landward entrance to Gibraltar, and run from a natural fault called the Orillon to a cliff at the southern end of the isthmus linking Gibraltar with Spain. Hughes & Migos, p. 335 The lines face out across the modern Laguna Estate, which stands on the site of the Inundation, an artificial lake created to obstruct landward access to Gibraltar. They were constructed to enfilade attackers approaching Gibraltar's Landport Front from the landward direction. A fortification constructed by the Spanish or Moors appears to have existed on the site before the British capture of Gibraltar in 1704, but the Lines were principally constructed during the 18th century. They were first laid out in 1720, and a stone stepped communication passage was later b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortifications Of Gibraltar
The Gibraltar peninsula, located at the far southern end of Iberia, has great strategic importance as a result of its position by the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean. It has repeatedly been contested between European and North African powers and has endured fourteen sieges since it was first settled in the 11th century. The peninsula's occupants – Moors, Spanish, and British – have built successive layers of fortifications and defences including walls, bastions, casemates, gun batteries, magazines, tunnels and galleries. At their peak in 1865, the fortifications housed around 681 guns mounted in 110 batteries and positions, guarding all land and sea approaches to Gibraltar. Hughes & Migos, p. 91 The fortifications continued to be in military use until as late as the 1970s and by the time tunnelling ceased in the late 1960s, over of galleries had been dug in an area of only . Gibraltar's fortifications are clustered in three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (general)
General Sir William Green, 1st Baronet, of Marass, Kent (4 April 1725 – 10 January 1811) was an officer in the British Army. After receiving a private education in Aberdeen, Scotland and a military education at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, England, he was appointed as a practitioner engineer in 1743. Green served on the European continent until 1752, after which he was in Canada. There, he continued to advance through both the ordinary military and engineering ranks. Following his return to England, Green was named senior engineer for Gibraltar about 1761, and the next year promoted to lieutenant colonel. He was promoted to chief engineer for Gibraltar in 1770, and designed and executed a number of military works on the Rock. In 1772, his idea of a regiment of military artificers, to replace the civilian mechanics who had formerly constructed military works, came to fruition in the form of the Soldier Artificer Company, the predecessor of the Corps of Royal Sappers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince's Lines Battery
Princes is the plural for prince, a royal title. Princes may also refer to: Roads: * Princes Highway, a major road in Australia * Princes Motorway, New South Wales, Australia * Princes Freeway, Victoria, Australia * Princes Street, a major thoroughfare in central Edinburgh, Scotland * Princes Street, Dunedin, New Zealand Music: * Die Prinzen, a German band whose name translate to The Princes * The Princes (Estonian band), an Estonian rock band Other uses: * Princes Group, a food manufacturing company based in the United Kingdom * Princes Bridge (other) * Princes Ice Hockey Club, an early European ice hockey teams, sometimes considered the first ice hockey club in Britain * Prince Alfred College, a private boys school in Kent Town, South Australia, also known as Princes * ''Princes'' (novel) (1997), by Australian novelist Sonya Hartnett See also * Princes Park (other) * Prince's Dock, Liverpool, part of the Port of Liverpool, England * Princes Town, Trin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes' Batteries
Forbes' Batteries are a pair of artillery battery, artillery batteries in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The batteries are casemated. Description The Forbes' Batteries are on the eastern end of the Northern Defences. These batteries had five guns arranged on two levels. There is Forbes' Quarry, a famous quarry behind the batteries which shares the same name. This complex group of fortifications is located at the end of Princes Lines and was named after Lt. George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, George Forbes RN, ADC to Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, third Earl of Granard (1685-1765) who took part as a midshipman in the attack of 1704 and who fought on shore in the siege of 1727. In 1727 the battery mounted two 6-pdr guns. In 1761 the British constructed Upper and Lower Forbes' Batteries. Upper Forbes' Battery has two fine magazines, one brick and one stone, built against the cliff wall. Above the two batteries is Forbes' Lookout. Duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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