Grand Battery, Gibraltar
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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
View of Grand Battery and the Moorish Castle in 2013
The same view from 1828
Moorish Castle
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The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gat
Grand Battery, Gibraltar
…and replaced by bastions. This battery forms 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…
The Moorish Castle's Tower of Homage in Gibraltar flying the Union Flag.
View of the Moorish Castle's northern defences as seen from the Grand Battery in 1879
Queen Charlotte's Battery at the Moorish Castle.