Gun Hill Signal Station
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gun-hill-signal-station-293-18131845
title:
Gun Hill Signal Station
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Gun Hill Signal Station, St. George is the largest and most important of the military outposts in Barbados, with military associations from at least 1697. In the Militia Act of that year, when it was known as Briggs Hill, it was named as one of the four points where guns were to be placed to give alarm in the event of an invasion, so it is likely that the name Gun Hill goes back nearly 300 years. When the signal stations were established in 1818–1819, it became the key link in the chain, passing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Hill_Signal_Station
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2024-04-02T21:43:09Z
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