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Prince Albert's Front
is a
curtain wall
that formerly comprised part of the seafront
fortifications of Gibraltar
. It runs between the
King's Bastion
and
Orange Bastion
. The Front was constructed in 1842 after a report by Major General Sir
John Thomas Jones
recommended improving Gibraltar's seafront defences to guard against the threat of an amphibious assault. It was named after
Prince Albert
,
Queen Victoria
's
prince consort
. The Front straightened out the line of Gibraltar's coastal
curtain wall
; parts of the original curtain wall, some of which dates from the
Moorish
period over 500 years ago, can still be seen.
[2]
The Front was intended to be armed with 68-pdr cannon but their deployment did not proceed due to lack of funds. By 1859, six such guns had been installed on the Front along with another four in the
Windmill Hill Batteries
. The Front is interrupted half-way along by a flat platform called
Zoca Flank
, on which a 12.5-inch 38-ton
rifled muzzle loader
(RML) was installed by 1879. By the 1880s, three 80-pdr RMLs had been installed on the right curtain wall.
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References
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Bibliography
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edit
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- Hughes, Quentin; Migos, Athanassios (1995).
Strong as the Rock of Gibraltar
. Gibraltar: Exchange Publications.
OCLC
48491998
.
36°08′33″N
5°21′17″W
/
36.1424°N 5.3546°W
/
36.1424; -5.3546