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 | The Battle of Polygon Wood was a small conflict of the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I. The majority of the battle was fought near Ypres, Belgium, in an area named the Polygon Wood after the layout of the area. However, much of the woodland had been under intense shelling during the Battle of Passchendaele, and the area changed hands many times throughout the course of the campaign. The ... |  | 11/19/2009 | 379 | 
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 | The Battle of Polygon Wood, 25-27 September 1917, was part of the wider Third Battle of Ypres (First World War). It came during the second phase of the battle, in which General Herbert Plumer’s Second Army was given the lead. Plumer replaced the ambitious general assaults that had begun the battle with a series of small attacks with limited objectives – his “Bite and hold” plan. These attacks i... |  | 11/04/2008 | 443 | 



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 | A big cannon at the Royal Artillery Barracks, London, UK. |  | 05/12/2008 | 1,017 | 



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 | 3 artillery fire units closed to Tehran airport |  | 04/01/2007 | 642 | 



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 | A big coastal artillery in Tynemouth, UK. |  | 05/12/2008 | 286 | 



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 | This model shall demonstrate that Google Earth not only lacks high resolution overlays for most places in the world, Google Earth's utilized elevation model may even veil details. |  | 06/06/2007 | 652 | 
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 | M.K.B. Oldenburg was one of the first German batteries along the Atlantic Wall. That' s probably why you find few Regelbau bunkers here. The artillery towers, Turm Ost and Turm West have a different shape and size. They were equiped with SK L/50 guns, which were originally Russian. The range of the guns was 28 kilometres.
Apart from both artillery towers there are a 621 (Gruppen... |  | 08/24/2006 | 454 | 



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 | Toruń Fortress (Festung Thorn), built from 1872–1894 by the Kingdom of Prussia and located in Toruń (now Poland), is one of the largest fortresses in Central and Eastern Europe. The fortress complex – a chain of forts surrounding the city, as well as numerous smaller fortifications supplementing it – was intended to defend the eastern border of Prussia (with the Russian Empire). Despi... |  | 11/19/2009 | 87 | 



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 | Before the necessity to defend the city of Cartagena, port and military shipyard, of attacks by sea, were constructed between centuries XVIII and principles of the XX a series of coastal artillery batteries, the majority fortified with bastions (of the Spanish school), and other casemated ones. Some of them conserve tubes of century XVIII and other enormous tubes of principles of century XX. Th... |  | 11/13/2008 | 171 | 



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 | Martello towers (or simply Martellos) are small defensive forts built by the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards. They stand up to 40 feet (12m) high (with two floors) and typically had a garrison of one officer and 25 men. Their round structure and thick walls of solid masonry made them very resistant to cannon fire, while their height made them... |  | 03/29/2007 | 260 | 



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 | A Twentieth Century coastal battery and associated pillbox, tank trap and military building are visible as a series of structures on air photographs. Some of the features are visible on the latest 1988-1993 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. These features represent the northernmost area of Blyth Battery, a coastal artillery battery situated on South Beach, Blyth. The battery was constructed... |  | 09/30/2008 | 614 | 



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 | A 10 inch cannon at Fort Casey, WA. |  | 05/12/2008 | 626 | 



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