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New Mole Battery

artillery battery in Gibraltar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ16933020 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Mole Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Description

The New Mole Battery is used by the Gibraltar Fire Brigade for practise. which has not assisted its condition. The nearby Alexandra Battery is said to be in good condition.

Editorial summary

“New Mole Battery” enters the record as artillery battery in Gibraltar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mole, Battery and artillery can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mole, Battery and artillery.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16933020. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Mole Battery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.