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14 unusual facts about Artillery battery


7th Toronto Regiment, RCA

There are three batteries within the regiment, 9 Bty – the howitzer or gun battery, 15 Bty – the mortar battery, and 130 Bty – the headquarters battery as well as training and recruiting.

Amagi-class battlecruiser

--changed this from Kaga-class--> battleship, but with a thinner armored belt and deck and a modified secondary battery arrangement.

Batería de la Atunara

The Batería de la Atunara (Atunara Battery) was a battery in La Línea de la Concepción, Spain.

Claiborne, Alabama

The coming of the American Civil War saw the construction of batteries along the lower Alabama River and at Claiborne.

Derwent Island House

In 1778 Joseph Pocklington bought the island (then known as Vicar's Island) and built a house, boathouse, fort and battery, and Druid circle folly on the land.

Joseph Drew

Drew, Joseph: British Patent 1508 of 1861: Improvements in the adaptation of plates or shields to fixed and floating batteries, and also ships, for the purpose of more effectually resisting shot or other projectiles.

Labrador Nature Reserve

It became one of nine sites in which the British had set up their batteries, and is part of the British overall defense system for Singapore.

Liscard

The battery was obsolete by 1912, and sold on, and houses were erected on top, and now the site has an odd appearance with only the curtain wall and ornate crenellated gatehouse surviving.

Pulau Sejahat

The gun battery positions on Pulau Sejahat could have been intended to protect the stretch of waters between Changi and Pulau Tekong, so as to extend the coverage provided by the neighbouring coastal defence batteries.

SMS Moltke

However, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, along with the Construction Department, argued that increasing the number of guns from 8 to 10 would be preferable instead of increasing the size of the previous battery.

Terrahawks

It is armed with several batteries of Zeroids, and carries numerous auxiliary vessels including shuttles, tanks, and support machines.

The Troubles in Portadown

As paramilitary activity in the town increased accommodation was increased at Fort Mahon to include, firstly, a roulemont unit of regular soldiers, mostly Royal Artillery units in battery strength.

Thy National Park

A total of 5 restored bunkers and batteries, lies spread along the coastline in the national park.

William C. Bilo

After serving as an instructor at the Artillery school, Bilo served in West Germany, including command of Battery B, 4th Battalion, 41st Artillery Regiment.


Battle of Sidi Bou Othman

Mangin's column was composed of six companies of Senegalese tirailleurs, two companies of Algerian tirrailleurs, two companies of colonial infantry, a goum of Moroccan auxiliaries, two cavalry squadrons and a mountain artillery battery.

Benjamin F. Potts

In July 1862, he was temporarily detached from his infantry company and assigned command of an artillery battery in Winchester, Virginia.

Drums in the Deep South

To delay General Sherman's March to the Sea, a local guide can lead a party of men and their disassembled cannon inside caves that lead to the top of Devil's Mountain where a battery of guns can destroy the railroad and the Union troop and supply trains that travel it, buying time for the Confederacy.

Edmund Graves Meredith Cape

He raised and commanded the 3rd Battery, Canadian Siege Artillery, and was later appointed Commanding Officer of the 2nd Medium Brigade, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

Operation Shmone

The operation started at 14:00 on November 9, 1948, with an artillery barrage from a number of units: two batteries of 75 mm Saint Chamond-Mondragón ("Cucaracha"), two batteries of 75 mm Krupp cannons, a number of 6 pounders and sixteen 120 mm mortars with delayed fuses.

Transvaalse Staatsartillerie

The first attempt by the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR) to form a professional full-time artillery unit was Batterij Dingaan (Dingaan Battery), which could be seen as the forerunner of the Transvaalse Staatsartillerie.

Warden Point Battery

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 mountings.