Mount Misery Battery was an artillery battery situated on the Upper Ridge of the

Rock of Gibraltar The Rock of Gibraltar (from the Arabic name Jabal Ṭāriq , meaning "Mountain of Tariq ibn Ziyad, Tariq") is a monolithic limestone mountain high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a nar ...

. It was situated at Mount Misery, one of the peaks of the Rock. In 1901 its name was changed to

Breakneck Battery Breakneck Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence property at the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, north o ...

at the suggestion of Major-General Sir John Slade of the

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

. Slade was to go on command British troops in Egypt from 1903 to 1905. Following his suggestion in 1899 that it would be a suitable position to accommodate a long-range coastal defence gun, a 9.2-inch breech-loading Mark X gun on a Mark V mounting was installed in 1906. Hughes, p. 308

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* Artillery battery fortifications in Gibraltar Coastal artillery {{Gibraltar-struct-stub