Prince of Wales Battery

{{Short description|Artillery battery in Gibraltar}}

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Prince of Wales Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.{{cite book|author=Fa & Finlayson|title=The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BC5QBR0oB04C&pg=PA31|access-date=4 April 2013|year=2006|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1-84603-016-1}}

Description

The four gun battery was well above the Line Wall Curtain in Gibraltar and defended the southern Jumper's Bastion. This battery was between the similarly armed Lady Augusta's Battery and the Cumberland Flank Battery.{{cite web|title=1859 Map of the Fortifications of Gibraltar|url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/1859_Gibraltar_fortifications_map.jpg|publisher=UK National Archives MPH 1/23|access-date=14 May 2013}}

References

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Category:Artillery battery fortifications in Gibraltar

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