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    Point Battery (which is also known by its earlier name, Eighteen Gun Battery) is a former gun emplacement on Portsmouth Point in Hampshire. Part of the...
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    Hobart. Battery Point is named after the battery of guns which were established on the point in 1818 as part of the Hobart coastal defences. The battery was...
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    Downing Point Battery was a World War I coastal gun battery defending the Firth of Forth. The battery was constructed in 1914 at Downing Point, then part...
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  • Praed Point Battery was a coastal-defence installation at Praed Point, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea during World War II. It was built in 1941 by...
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    The Steele Point Battery is a small fort, on the shores of Port Jackson in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, Australia. Talk of the need for harbour...
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    Battery Point Light is a lighthouse in Crescent City, California, United States. It is registered as a California Historical Landmark, and is listed on...
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  • Kau Point Battery is a 19th-century coast defence battery constructed in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell...
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  • Look up battery or batterie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Battery or batterie most often refers to: Electric battery, a device that provides electrical...
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    The Macaulay Point Battery is a historic gun emplacement in Victoria, British Columbia. A fort was built here between February 1894 and October 1897....
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  • Needles Battery". "Warden Point Battery". "Golden Hill Fort". "Cliff End Battery". "Fort Albert". "Fort Victoria". "Bouldnor Battery". "Puckpool Battery". "Nodes...
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    The Blunts Point Battery, also known as Blunts Point Naval Gun or Matautu Ridge Gun Site, is a gun battery on Matautu Ridge near Pago Pago, American Samoa...
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    Nodes Point Battery (map reference SZ635898) is a battery located at Nodes Point on the Isle of Wight. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on...
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    The Dawes Point Battery remains is a heritage-listed former artillery fortification and now visitor attraction located adjacent to the southern pylon...
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    Point Battery (Maltese: Batterija tal-Ponta ta' Tas-Sliema), also known as Fort Sliema (Maltese: Il-Fortizza ta' Tas-Sliema), is an artillery battery...
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  • Cranberry Point Battery was a First World War era coastal defence battery which defended the approaches to Sydney Harbour. It originally consisted of...
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    Doller's Point Battery, a Confederate earthworks during the American Civil War intended to protect Richmond against Union gunboats. Swann's Point Battery was...
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    Warden Point Battery is a battery on the Isle of Wight begun in 1862, that was originally armed with 7-inch and 9-inch rifled muzzle loaders on barbette...
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  • Monticello, supported by the USS Thomas Freeborn, and Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point that took place on May 18, 19 and 21, 1861, in Norfolk County...
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  • Crosby Battery, also known as Crosby Point Battery and Fort Crosby, was an artillery battery situated between Crosby and Hightown in Lancashire, United...
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    lead–acid battery is a type of rechargeable battery first invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté. It is the first type of rechargeable battery ever...
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    Point Battery came to be known as "Fort Useless" and "Fort Ridiculous" among the local residents. Today, nothing remains of the village of Long Point...
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  • East Point Batteries, located in Nahant, Massachusetts, were part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston during World War II. Three separate gun batteries were...
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  • anode Lithium–air battery Lithium–iron disulfide battery Lithium–sulfur battery Nickel–lithium battery Rechargeable lithium metal battery, a rechargeable...
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    and patented by Josiah Vavasseur. The mountings were used in Barton's Point Battery in Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, England. Vavasseur pivot...
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    An automotive battery, or car battery, is a rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle. Its main purpose is to provide an electric current...
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  • The Battery refers to: The Battery (Charleston), South Carolina, United States The Battery (Manhattan) in New York City The Battery, St. John's, Newfoundland...
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    The Battery Point Formation is a geologic formation in Quebec. It preserves fossils dating back to the early Emsian to early Eifelian the lower Devonian...
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    needed] and Web sites[citation needed], The Battery and White Point Garden are sometimes referred to as "Battery Park," but the park and seawall promenade...
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  • Devils Battery or Devils Point Battery, Hartlen Point or Hartlen Point Tunnels, was a complex military installation at the mouth of Halifax Harbour in...
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  • emplacements. The two 6 inch Mk. VII naval guns from Wallace Battery, were installed at Praed Point Battery, Rabaul. Gamble, p. 46. Gamble, Bruce (2006). Darkest...
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