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THE PLACE -
Harding's Battery
"This battery was constructed on part of the old 7th Europa Battery and in between the later 1st and 2nd Europa Batteries of 1859 named after Sir George Harding, Chief Engineer in 1844. Originally, two 18 pounders were located on site. In 1863 there were two 32 pounders located here and 1877 saw the reconstruction of the battery to take a 12.5” RML on a barbette mounting. There is no record of when the 12.5” gun was dismounted but by 1939 the site housed an AASL (Anti Aircraft Searchlight). The battery now houses a visual and audio display of the historic and natural aspects of Gibraltar with particular focus on the area it is located in, Europa Point.
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Retrieved from the Gibraltar official tourism website: www.visitgibraltar.gi
THE PERSON -
Sir George Harding
"Lieutenant General Sir George Judd Harding KCB (1788 – 5 July 1860) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
Harding was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1802. He took part in the Napoleonic Wars, being deployed first to Messina in 1807, and then to Gibraltar, where in 1810 he worked with Sir Charles Holloway on the demolition of two Spanish forts and the rest of the Spanish Lines of Contravallation of Gibraltar. He was the Chief Engineer on Gibraltar in about 1831.
He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1856 and was also Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Royal Engineers.
In 1860 he was appointed to the Order of the Bath. He died later that year."
Retrieved from the website: www.wikipedia.org