Trafalgar Cemetery
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The Trafalgar Cemetery is a cemetery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Formerly known as the Southport Ditch Cemetery, it occupies a small area of land just to the south of the city wall
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Northwest corner of Trafalgar Cemetery, adjacent to the Southport Gates
Gravestone of Captain Thomas Norman of the Royal Marine Corps and HMS Mars (1794)
Statue of Lord Horatio Nelson unveiled by Peter Caruana in front of the South Bastion in 2005
Flat Bastion
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Flat Bastion is a bastion which projects southward from the Charles V Wall in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Once known as the St. Jago's Bastion or the Baluarte de Santiago in Spanish,
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…southern defences of the city. The Southport Ditch was a large trench which extended on the south side of Charles V Wall from the South Bastion to the Flat Bastion. It was depicted in a 1627 map of Gibraltar by Spanish engineer Luis Bravo de Acuña. On the map held by the British Museum, it is labeled in Spanish…
Model of Gibraltar (1865) demonstrates the Charles V Wall to the left of center. Along and on the right (south side) of the wall, from front to back, are included: South Bastion (extending into the harbour), Southport Gates, Trafalgar Cemetery, Prince Edward's Gate, and Flat Bastion.
North side of Prince Edward's Gate at the Charles V Wall, with sentry box and plaque at left
Three Southport Gates
New and Old Southport Gates