Spur Battery, the Glossary
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26 relations: Artillery battery, Bay of Gibraltar, BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun, British Overseas Territories, Duxford, Exocet, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Fortifications of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar Nature Reserve, Government of Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula, Imperial War Museum, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Lord Airey's Battery, Missile, National Geographic Society, O'Hara's Battery, Portsmouth, Project Vitello, Royal Engineers, Royal Gibraltar Regiment, Ship commissioning, Simon Stevin, Strait of Gibraltar, World War I.
Artillery battery
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
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Bay of Gibraltar
The Bay of Gibraltar (lit), is a bay at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.
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BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun
The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X gunsMk IX. Spur Battery and BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun are Coastal artillery.
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British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.
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Duxford
Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, about south of Cambridge.
Exocet
The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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Fortifications of Gibraltar
The Gibraltar peninsula, located at the far southern end of Iberia, has great strategic importance as a result of its position by the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
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Gibraltar Nature Reserve
The Gibraltar Nature Reserve (formerly the Upper Rock Nature Reserve) is a protected nature reserve in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar that covers over 40% of the territory's land area.
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Government of Gibraltar
His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar is the democratically elected government of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museums (IWM), is a British national museum.
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Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Lord Airey's Battery
Lord Airey's Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Spur Battery and Lord Airey's Battery are Batteries in Gibraltar and Coastal artillery.
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Missile
A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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O'Hara's Battery
O'Hara's Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Spur Battery and O'Hara's Battery are Batteries in Gibraltar and Coastal artillery.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.
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Project Vitello
Project Vitello was a military operation that transferred the 9.2-inch Mark X breech-loading gun at Spur Battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England. Spur Battery and Project Vitello are Batteries in Gibraltar and Coastal artillery.
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Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.
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Royal Gibraltar Regiment
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment is part of British Forces Gibraltar for the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which historically, along with Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia (prior to the 1867 Confederation of Canada which resulted in the British Army withdrawing from those colonies of British North America which joined the new dominion, other than small garrisons protecting Royal Naval facilities, and the 1905 closure of the Royal Naval yards at Halifax and Esquimalt), and Malta, had been designated an Imperial fortress rather than a colony.
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Ship commissioning
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.
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Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin (1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist.
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Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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