Couvreport Battery Explained

Couvreport Battery
Map Type:	Gibraltar
Map Size:	300
Coordinates:	36.1455°N -5.3512°W

Couvreport Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Description

It was established in 1761 when the Couvre Port Work, covering Landport, was re-formed, and a battery for three guns was created.^[1] The work was commission by Major William Green which as based on the "first system" which had been devised by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban in the 1680s. This battery was shaped like a ravelin as it was intended to divide any invading army.^[2]

According to Fa and Finlayson, "a small defensive work [was] set immediately in front of a gate so as to screen it."^[3]

Couvreport Battery is a Class A listed building as designated by the Government of Gibraltar's Gibraltar Heritage Trust Act of 1989.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Kenyon, Edward Ranulph. Gibraltar under Moor, Spaniard, and Briton. 30 March 2013. 1938. Gibraltar Society, Methuen & Co., Ltd.. 53.
2. Book: Fa & Finlayson. The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945. 30 March 2013. 2006. Osprey Publishing. 978-1-84603-016-1. 25.
3. Book: Fa & Finlayson. The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945. 30 March 2013. 2006. Osprey Publishing. 978-1-84603-016-1. 61.
4. Web site: Gibraltar Heritage Trust Act 1989. Government of Gibraltar. 30 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120827091758/http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articles/1989-12o.pdf. 27 August 2012. dead.