The Windmill Hill Batteries are a series of artillery batteries situated on Windmill Hill, Gibraltar near the south of the peninsula. They are part of...
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the area. The batteries included Buffadero Battery, Edward VII Battery, Jews' Cemetery Battery, Levant Battery and Windmill Hill Batteries. The flat terrain...
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List of fortifications in Gibraltar (section Batteries)
Tovey Battery Tower Battery Upper Battery Victoria Battery Waterport Battery West Battery White Rock Battery Willis' Battery Windmill Hill Batteries Woodford's...
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Rock Gun Battery Signal Hill Battery Bellman's Cave Victoria Battery Wellington Front Windmill Hill Batteries Woodford's Battery Zoca Flank Battery Devil's...
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eastern side of the Rock was inaccessible because of its steep terrain. Gun batteries were placed in a series of galleries on the north face of the Rock, providing...
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access to a quarry. In 1895, the Army dug out two natural caves under Windmill Hill to create an underground ammunition store, the Beefsteak Magazine. Major...
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Cumberland batteries. Further batteries and fortifications were constructed around Rosia Bay near the south of the peninsula and Windmill Hill was strengthened...
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Victoria Battery Waterport Battery West Battery White Rock Battery Willis' Battery Windmill Hill Batteries Woodford's Battery Zoca Flank Battery Castles...
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Signal Hill Battery or Signal Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The battery was mounted high on the rock...
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support the British counter-bombardment of Spanish and French artillery batteries during the successful defence of Gibraltar. Its success made Koehler famous...
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It is located in the southern part of the Rock, south of Spur Battery on Windmill Hill. The last United Kingdom regiment was the 3rd Battalion Royal Green...
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Buffadero Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Windmill Hill. Buffadero was the name of a...
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Levant Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Windmill Hill, at the southern end of the Upper...
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Armies spent weeks restoring O'Hara's and Lord Airey's Batteries. For years, O'Hara's Battery had been classified as an excluded site, where entry was...
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Because the British viewed the two batteries as part of the one large fortress that was the Rock of Gibraltar, the batteries lacked all-round protection and...
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The Prince of Wales Batteries were a group of artillery batteries built in Gibraltar between 1859–60 and named after Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (and...
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Scud Hill Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Fa & Finlayson (2006). The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945...
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had been installed on the Front along with another four in the Windmill Hill Batteries. The Front is interrupted half-way along by a flat platform called...
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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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Gibraltar's batteries commenced in the 1890s. By 1914, Gibraltar boasted a total of fourteen of the 9.2-inch weapons on twelve batteries. Breakneck Battery had...
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it became (along with Buffadero Battery and Jews' Cemetery Battery) one of three batteries on or below Windmill Hill to be equipped with BL 9.2 inch gun...
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Tower Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Fa & Finlayson (2006). The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945...
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and the batteries. Europa Advance Batteries, Europa Pass Batteries, Europa Batteries, Eliott's Battery, Europa Advance Battery, Half Way Battery, Lighthouse...
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"Middle Hill Battery". discovergibraltar.com. DiscoverGibraltar.com (Click Gun Batteries, Green's Lodge Battery, then F, G - Middle Hill Battery). Archived...
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"'Gibraltar': plan showing naval and military establishments, bastions, batteries and other defence works, magazines. Scale: 6 inches to 2,400 feet". UK...
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Calpe Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Fa & Finlayson (2006). The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945...
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Prince of Wales Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The four gun battery was well above the Line Wall Curtain...
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Lighthouse Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Lighthouse Battery had four 3.7-inch (94 mm) Anti-Aircraft...
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Catalan Batteries is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Fa & Finlayson (2006). The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945...
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Victoria Battery (one of two identically named batteries named after Queen Victoria) was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...
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