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Fort Nelson, Hampshire

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Fort Nelson, in the civil parish of Boarhunt in the English county of Hampshire, is one of five defensive forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill in the 1860s, overlooking the important naval base of Portsmouth. [1]

42 relations: Battle of Waterloo, Boarhunt, Caponier, Casemate, Civil parish, Dardanelles Gun, England, Fort Nelson, Fort Southwick, Fort Widley, Fortification, François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French people, Gosport, Gulf War, Guthrie rolling bridge, Hampshire, Hampshire County Council, Hayling Island, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Hilsea Lines, Iraq, Isle of Wight, Listed building, Magazine (artillery), Mallet's Mortar, Mortar (weapon), Ottoman Empire, Palmerston Forts, Polygonal fort, Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth, Project Babylon, RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun, Redan, RML 6.6-inch howitzer, RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun, Royal Armouries, Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, SBBL 32 pounder, Solent, Volunteer Force.

Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Boarhunt

Boarhunt is a village and civil parish in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England, about north-east of Fareham.

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Caponier

A caponier is a type of defensive structure in a fortification.

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Casemate

A casemate, sometimes erroneously rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Dardanelles Gun

The Dardanelles Gun or Great Turkish Bombardhttps://collections.royalarmouries.org/object/rac-object-6177.html (Şahi topu or simply Şahi) is a 15th-century siege cannon, specifically a super-sized bombard, which saw action in the 1807 Dardanelles Operation.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fort Nelson

Fort Nelson may refer to.

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Fort Southwick

Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, England.

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Fort Widley

Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo

François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo (24 June 1774 – 25 June 1838) was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire.

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French people

The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

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Gosport

Gosport is a town in Hampshire on the south coast of England.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War (2 August 199028 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 199017 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 199128 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

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Guthrie rolling bridge

A Guthrie rolling bridge was a kind of retractable bridge, an 18th-century version of the drawbridge.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hampshire County Council

Hampshire County Council (HCC) is the county council that governs the majority of the county of Hampshire in England.

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Hayling Island

Hayling Island is an island off the south coast of England, in the borough of Havant in the county of Hampshire, near Portsmouth.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.

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Hilsea Lines

The Hilsea Lines are a line of 18th- and 19th-century fortifications built to protect the northern approach to Portsea, an island off the coast of England which is part of the city of Portsmouth and its key naval base.

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Iraq

Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Magazine (artillery)

Magazine is the name for an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored.

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Mallet's Mortar

Mallet's Mortar was a British shell-firing mortar built for the Crimean War, but never used in combat.

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Mortar (weapon)

A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Palmerston Forts

The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures, around the coast of Britain.

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Polygonal fort

A polygonal fort is a fortification in the style that appeared in the end of the eighteenth century and evolved around the middle of the nineteenth century, in response to the development of powerful explosive shells.

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Portsdown Hill

Portsdown Hill is a long chalk ridge in Hampshire, England.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Project Babylon

Project Babylon was a project with unknown objectives commissioned by the then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to build a series of "superguns".

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RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun

The Armstrong RBL 7 inch gun, also known as the 110-pounder, was an early attempt to use William Armstrong's new and innovative rifled breechloading mechanism for heavy rifled guns.

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Redan

Redan (a French word for "projection", "salient") is a term related to fortifications.

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RML 6.6-inch howitzer

The RML 6.6 inch howitzer was a British Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) Howitzer manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing approximately.

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RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun

The RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun was a Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) naval, field or fortification artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing approximately.

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Royal Armouries

The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour.

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Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom

The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom was a committee formed in 1859 to enquire into the ability of the United Kingdom to defend itself against an attempted invasion by a foreign power, and to advise the British Government on the remedial action required.

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SBBL 32 pounder

The SBBL 32 pounder was a smooth-bore breech loading gun made by converting older 32 pounder 42 cwt smooth-bore muzzle-loading guns.

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Solent

The Solent is the strait that separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England.

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Volunteer Force

The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement throughout the British Empire in 1859.

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Fort Nelson, Portsmouth, Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Nelson,_Hampshire

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