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List Of Fortifications Of Gibraltar
This is a list of fortifications of Gibraltar. Barracks * Bombproof Barracks * Buena Vista Barracks * Defensible Barracks * Grand Casemates * Lathbury Barracks * Retrenched Barracks * South Barracks Bastions * Flat Bastion (St Jago's Bastion) [Baluarte de Santiago] * Hesse's Demi Bastion (Baluarte de San Pedro) * Jumper's Bastion (North) [Santa Cruz] * Jumper's Bastion (South) * King's Bastion, 1773 (Plataforma de San Lorenzo) * Montagu Bastion (Plataforma de San Andrés) * North Bastion, Gibraltar, North Bastion (Baluarte de San Pablo) * Orange Bastion, 1877 (Plataforma de Santa Ana) * South Bastion, Gibraltar, South Bastion, 1540 (Baluarte de Nuestra Señora del Rosario) * Wellington Front North Demi Bastion (Plataforma de San Diego) * Wellington Front South Demi Bastion (Plataforma de San Francisco) Batteries * Engineer Battery * Europa Advance Batteries * Europa Batteries * Europa Pass Batteries * Farringdon's Battery * Forbes' Batteries * Gardiner's Battery * Genista Batt ... [...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 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Battery
Alexandra Battery is a coastal artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It was constructed at the neck of the South Mole (originally the New Mole) to enfilade the coastal fortifications of Gibraltar. The battery stood on the site of several previous fortifications; it was built over the New Mole Battery, which was itself constructed on the site of an old Spanish fort in front of the Tuerto Tower. The battery owed its construction to the recommendations of an 1868 report by Colonel (later General) William Jervois. He proposed that a new battery should be constructed on the site to house a RML 38 ton gun – at the time, the heaviest rifled muzzle-loading gun in the British Army's inventory – in a casemate protected by an iron shield. It was named after Alexandra of Denmark, the wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). He laid the foundation stone in 1876 and the battery was finished two years later, but it was already out of dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland Flank Battery
Cumberland Flank Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Description The Cumberland Flank Battery was a large battery that was around the docks area and could fire at enemy shipping that approached Gibraltar Harbour. In 1859 there were 32 guns that made up the Cumberland Flank and the New Mole Battery New Mole Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Description The New Mole Battery is used by the Gibraltar Fire Brigade ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song = "Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gi .... Today there is a Cumberland Road on the rock to the east of the dockyard which records the battery's name. References Batteries in Gibraltar {{Gibraltar-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couvreport Battery
Couvreport Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Description It was established in 1761 when the Couvre Port Work, covering Landport, was re-formed, and a battery for three guns was created. The work was commission by Major William Green which as based on the "first system" which had been devised by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban in the 1680s. This battery was shaped like a ravelin as it was intended to divide any invading army. According to Fa and Finlayson, "a small defensive work asset immediately in front of a gate so as to screen it." Couvreport Battery is a Class A listed building as designated by the Government of Gibraltar His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar is the democratically elected government of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The head of state is King Charles III who is represented by the Governor. Elections in Gibraltar are held every fo ...'s Gibraltar Heritage Trust Act of 1989. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Hospital Battery
Civil Hospital Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Description This battery was south of the Moorish Castle and in 1859 it had six guns. This battery would have been called a "retired" battery as it was well away from Gibraltar Harbour The Port of Gibraltar, also known as Gibraltar Harbour, is a seaport in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It was a strategically important location during the Napoleonic Wars and after 1869 served as a supply point for ships travelling .... These batteries were harder for an enemy to target and their increased height on the slopes of Gibraltar gave the gunners increased visibility and range. References Batteries in Gibraltar {{Gibraltar-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalan Batteries
Catalan Batteries is an artillery battery In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to fa ... in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. References Batteries in Gibraltar {{Gibraltar-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caves Battery
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Castle Batteries
Castle Batteries are a series of artillery batteries that are part of the Northern Defences of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The batteries descend from the Moorish Castle to end at the sixth and seven batteries which are known as Crutchett's Batteries. There are brick vaulted bombproof rooms (casemates) under Crutchets Battery. The batteries were part of the northern defences of Gibraltar. Armies can only attack Gibraltar without ships from the north and therefore this is heavily fortified around the only gate to Spain called Landport. Cornwell describes how this was defended by "several batteries, numerous batteries on the Glacis of Landport, by Crutchett's and the Grand Battery". He speculated that no army could withstand the grapeshot Grapeshot is a type of artillery round invented by a British Officer during the Napoleonic Wars. It was used mainly as an anti infantry round, but had other uses in naval combat. In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of ammuniti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calpe Battery
Calpe Battery is an artillery battery In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to fa ... in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. References Batteries in Gibraltar {{Gibraltar-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffadero Battery
Buffadero Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Windmill Hill. Description Buffadero was the name of a village where people lived at the south end of Gibraltar before World War II. According to the Royal Engineers, Buffadero is possibly an anglicized corruption derived from the Spanish "bufido", which means "blowing" or "snorting", or it might be of Genoese origin as many Genoese workmen had been employed in Gibraltar. At the end of the nineteenth century Buffadero Battery had a BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X, which was one of 14 installed in Gibraltar. The guns were intended to counter 8" guns on cruisers. At Gibraltar, these guns could fire across the Straits of Gibraltar and could hit shipping on the coast of Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
