The Defensible Barracks is a fortified barracks located at Europa Flats in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The British defensive strategy...
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The Defensible Barracks at Pembroke Dock, is a Grade II* listed, Victorian-era fortification and barracks in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It is a 20-sided...
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Pembroke Dock became a military town. Work began in 1844 to build defensible barracks. In 1845 the first occupiers were the Royal Marines of the Portsmouth...
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infantry barracks were established within them (e.g. at Chatham, Upper and Lower Barracks, 1756, and Plymouth, six defensible square barracks, 1758–63)...
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organised into the following: Regulars 1st Battalion, in 1881 based at Defensible Barracks, Pembroke Dock 2nd Battalion, in 1881 based in Madras Militia 3rd...
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3 km (1.4 mi). The first Shornemead Fort was provided with a barracks, magazine and defensible gorges and was planted with walnut trees nearby to supplement...
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Gibraltar Barracks Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Bastions...
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Gibraltar Barracks Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Bastions...
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harbour since 1860. It was originally constructed for nine guns with a defensible barracks at the rear. In 1881 the battery mounted three 10-inch Smooth bore...
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including the Defensible Barracks and the Garrison Chapel. The remainder are Grade II. There are three scheduled monuments, two, the Defensible Barracks and the...
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Coalhouse Fort (section Magazines, barracks and roof)
casemates, with which they could communicate via voice tubes. A defensible barracks made of brick, faced in Kentish ragstone on the fort's exterior,...
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Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission...
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Torpoint Ferry. The lines were supported in the rear by a series of defensible barracks, each provided with a rampart and bastions. A survey in 1805 shows...
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used is of local limestone. Once separated by open space a second defensible barracks, built into the sea-wall defences themselves, forms the most southerly...
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trenches cut into the solid rock or natural ledges which were made more defensible by building masonry walls and scarping the cliffs below. The Lines were...
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Gibraltar Barracks Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Bastions...
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firing over a parapet). The landward side of the fort consists of a defensible barracks, with a loopholed parapet overlooking the entrance. In 1860, the...
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Gibraltar Barracks Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Bastions...
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Lathbury Barracks was a military barracks in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar that is currently used by civilians. It is located in the southern...
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rounded up and confined to their quarters. The Grand Casemates, a bombproof barracks, was started in the 1770s but was not finished until 1817. In 1815 two...
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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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been put into a defensible condition . . . Proceeding towards Europa Point, at the entrance of the town, fortifications, magazines, barracks, and batteries...
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excellent views of the entrance to the Haven. It consisted of a defensible barracks with 28 guns and accommodation for 250 men. The original guns were...
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Gibraltar. It is located at Europa Flats between the Defensible Barracks and the Officer's Barracks and Eliott's Battery. The battery was built before 1738...
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List of fortifications in Gibraltar (section Barracks)
Gibraltar. Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Flat Bastion (St...
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South Barracks were barracks built for the garrison in what is now the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The barracks were built in the 1730s and...
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Liverpool 2nd Battalion, The Royal East Kent Regiment (Buffs), Defensible Barracks 100th (Monmouthshire) Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers (SR),...
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Gibraltar Barracks Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Bastions...
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strongly defended from a ground assault. It lacked a defended ditch or defensible barracks to keep out attackers, instead relying on a barbed wire fence which...
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Gibraltar Barracks Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched Barracks South Barracks Bastions...
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