Knowles Battery
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knowles-battery-232-6629681
title:
Knowles Battery
text:
Knowles Battery is a former 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Designed by Captain Edmund Frederick Du Cane, it was built by George Baker and Company and finished by the Royal
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description:
Artillery battery in City of Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowles_Battery
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date modified:
2023-05-25T21:27:04Z
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