Spanish gun battery overlooking the Straits of Gibralter

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Spanish gun battery overlooking the Straits of Gibralter


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By: kjfitz @ 2005-09-30 11:15:26
Description: I can't find any reference to this battery. It looks like it consisted of sixteen fixed or disaprearing guns arrayed in a fan so that each gun in succession would come to bear on ships passing in and out of the strait. Probably from the late nineteenth century.
Location: Ceuta, Spain (ES)
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