Edward VII Battery | |
Map Type: | Gibraltar |
Map Size: | 300 |
Coordinates: | 36.1162°N -5.3473°W |
Open To Public: | No |
Controlledby: | Ministry of Defence |
Garrison: | Royal Gibraltar Regiment |
Edward VII Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
At the end of the nineteenth century Edward VII Battery had two 9.2adj=midNaNadj=mid guns which were part of fourteen available for long range bombardment. These guns could fire across the Straits of Gibraltar including hitting shipping on the coast of Morocco.[1]