Buena Vista Battery was an artillery battery near the Buena Vista Barracks at the southern end of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located...
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Bay of Buena Vista, Cuba Buena Vista, Dominican Republic, in Jarabacoa, La Vega Province Buena Vista Barracks and Battery, Gibraltar Buena Vista, Coahuila...
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List of fortifications in Gibraltar (section Barracks)
Gibraltar. Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Flat Bastion (St...
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Bomb Proof Battery was an artillery battery near Bomb Proof Barracks in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The battery was located at the south...
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Little Bay. This battery was on the shoreline but it was overlooked by the Buena Vista Battery and the seven guns of the Europa Pass Batteries. Fa & Finlayson...
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was overlooked by this battery and the Buena Vista Battery. The ownership of houses associated with the Europa Pass Batteries were passed from the UK...
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O'Hara's Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located at the highest point of the Rock of Gibraltar,...
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Alcatraz Island (redirect from Disciplinary Barracks, San Diego)
officer and explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala during Spanish rule of California; he charted San Francisco Bay in 1775. He named today's Yerba Buena Island...
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close defence of the batteries at Europa Point, which he identified as a possible invasion route. He recommended that "all barracks should be either bombproof...
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sixth and seven batteries which are known as Crutchett's Batteries. There are brick vaulted bombproof rooms (casemates) under Crutchets Battery. The batteries...
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Lathbury Barracks was a military barracks in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar that is currently used by civilians. It is located in the southern...
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from Parson's Lodge Battery to Buena Vista Barracks. This wall and the Machicouli Gallery above Camp Bay are both List A items and are protected by the...
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Point, at the entrance of the town, fortifications, magazines, barracks, and batteries are placed wherever the nature of the surface would permit." Gibraltar's...
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Forbes' Batteries are a pair of artillery batteries in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The batteries are casemated. The Forbes' Batteries are...
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Woodford's Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located at Europa Flats between the Defensible Barracks and the...
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Wilburt S. Brown (category Recipients of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal)
country and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for an action near Buena Vista on 19 January 1928. He returned from Nicaragua in May 1929, and was...
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Genoese Batteries are a pair of artillery batteries in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The Upper and Lower Genoese Batteries defended the...
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Eliott's Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The battery is located in front of the Officer's Barracks at Europa...
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Grand Casemates (redirect from Grand Casemates barracks)
in Grand Casemates Square, Gibraltar, that was originally a fortified barracks and casemate. It is beside Grand Casemates Gates, which leads through the...
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Spy Glass Battery or Spyglass Battery was originally a high angle artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The battery is mounted...
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southeast of Princess Anne's Battery. Formerly known as Willis' Battery, and later, Queen Anne's Battery or Queen's Battery, it was renamed in the late...
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The Europa Batteries are a group of artillery batteries in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Facing the North African coast, they are the most...
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The Retrenched Barracks was a fortified barracks located at Windmill Hill in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It stands to the north of the...
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Breakneck Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Ministry of Defence property at the Upper Rock...
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comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gate House. Part of the castle itself...
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Tunnels of Gibraltar (section Design and fitting out)
reservoir was begun but was used, in its incomplete state, as a storehouse and barracks for 4th Battalion the Black Watch during the Second World War. The improvements...
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Raglan's Battery was an artillery battery overlooking the harbour in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. During World War II the Raglan Battery Shelter...
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Battery, Lighthouse Battery, Lady Louisa's Battery and Woodford's Battery were supported by a local barracks. Harding's battery was built on the remains...
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Zachary Taylor (redirect from Old Rough and Ready)
Saltillo. Santa Anna attacked Taylor with 20,000 men at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847, leaving around 700 Americans dead or wounded at a cost...
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South Batteries is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The South Battery had four 3.7 inch guns during World War II....
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