Battery Cooper

Named after Lieutenant George A. Cooper of the 15th U.S Infantry, construction on Battery Cooper began in December of 1905 and finished one year later.

The original design utilized two 6-inch Model 1903 rapid-fire guns mounted on disappearing carriages. This ...

Battery 234

Construction of Battery 234 began as an answer to the increased naval threat of German and Japanese forces during the Second World War. This emplacement utilized a 6" turret-like shield-gun, featuring a steel shell that protected its crew from machine-gun ...

Fort Brooke Battery

Replica Naval Mounts

Manufactured for

The Friends of Plant Park

The Citizens of Tampa, Hillsborough County

and The University of Tampa

Dedicated to

The original inhabitants, soldiers, sailors and

settlers who with blood sweat and toil

carved this area out ...

The Market Battery

Stood on this site from 1848 to 1875. With Shoal Tower opposite it defended Kingston Harbour and the Rideau Canal. From 1875 this was a public park. In 1885 the Kingston and Pembroke railway station was built.

Marker is on Ontario ...

Historic Battery Park & Castle Clinton

Exploring Downtown

From early Dutch times the tip of Manhattan was fortified with the batteries of guns from which the Battery takes its name – first at the 17th-century Fort Amsterdam on the Custom House site, then at Castle Clinton. ...

Battery Haskell

(Front text)

This two-gun Confederate artillery battery and magazine is all that remains of Battery Haskell, a large fortification built on Legare’s Point in 1863 to help defend James and Morris Islands. This two-gun battery was just behind the left ...

Schultz's Battery

In Memoriam

Zum Andenken der Deutsch

Amerikanishe Freiwilligen

Schultz's Battery

Civil War 1861 - 1865

Battery M, First Ohio

Volunteer Light Artillery

Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio.

Erected in 1938 by

George Hemm Jr.

in memory of

his parents and the pioneer

immigrant German settlers,

soldiers and sailors of the

United States.

Their magnificent support of

President ...

Battery Cheves

(Front text)

This four-gun Confederate artillery battery was one of several earthworks built on the southeastern shore of James Island in the summer of 1863. Built between Battery Simkins and Battery Haskell, this battery was named for Capt. Langdon Cheves, ...

Battery Benton

Acting Master J. Frank Weed

U.S.

Battery Benton

Acting Master J. Frank WeedA detachment of Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery under Lieut. Joseph B. Atwater and a detail of enlisted men of the 34th Iowa Infantry, all under Acting Master J. Frank ...

Vrooman's Battery

La Batterie Vrooman

Manned by Captain Samuel Hatt's 5th Lincoln (Militia) Regiment and a small party of the Lincoln Militia Artillery under Lieutenant John Ball, and consisting of one 24-pounder cannon mounted within a crescent-shaped earthwork, this Battery was engaged in ...