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Saluting Battery, Gibraltar

Saluting Battery, Gibraltar

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This article is about the former battery in Gibraltar. For the battery in Malta, see Saluting Battery (Valletta).

Saluting Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

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The battery was above the Line Wall Curtain in Gibraltar and defended the west side including Gibraltar Harbour. Today the battery has been converted into a promenade.[1] Both Gardiner's Battery and Victoria Battery were higher or retired batteries that fired over the top of Saluting Battery that was on the coast.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Finlayson, Darren Fa & Clive (2006). The fortifications of Gibraltar : 1068-1945 (1. publ. in Great Britain. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Osprey. p. 56. ISBN 9781846030161.
  2. [2]
    "1859 Map of the Fortifications of Gibraltar". UK National Archives MPH 1/23. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
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