Grand Battery, Gibraltar
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| Grand Battery | |
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| Part of Fortifications of Gibraltar | |
| Gibraltar | |
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| during the Great Siege of Gibraltar c.1783 | |
| Type | Artillery Battery |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Ministry of Defence |
Grand Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. To the west of the grand battery was a very formidable flank which was considered to have been a "great annoyance to the besiegers."[1]
The photograph shows the grand battery at bottom right
This battery is part of a series of batteries built on the Moorish and Spanish lines that zigzagged up the hill of the Moorish Castle to the Tower of Homage on the Rock of Gibraltar. Seven of these batteries were formed along the city's walls.
References
- ↑ Bethune, John Drinkwater (1786). A history of the late siege of Gibraltar, by John Drinkwater. p. 27. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
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