water-battery

Fort Barrancas was designed by Joseph Gilbert Totten, and connected to the Spanish-built water-battery by an underground walkway tunnel.

MK's Creative Musings Mary K. McGraw 2008

The narrow entrance is at the exterior angle of the L, between the water-battery and the lighthouse; and in the interior angle are the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

Fortress -- so close that the artillerymen on the water-battery could have tossed a biscuit aboard -- and, heading north-east, passed out between the capes, where, seaward, the towering black sides of a sloop of war rose, bright work aglitter, smoke blowing fitfully from her single funnel.

Ailsa Paige 1899

Commodore Patterson had thrown up a water-battery of nine guns, three long 24's and six long 12's, pointing across the river, and intended to take in flank any foe attacking Jackson.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

In bitter rage Patterson spiked the guns of his water-battery and marched off with his sailors, unmolested.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

This was to permit the passage of a number of ships 'boats, on which one division was to be ferried to the opposite bank of the river, where it was to move up, and, by capturing the breastworks and water-battery on the west side, flank Jackson's main position on the east side.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

He did not mount the lighter guns of the water-battery on his lines, as he ought to have done.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

The heaviest cannon, both from the breastwork and the water-battery, played on the British camp, both night and day, giving the army no rest, and the mounted riflemen kept up a trifling, but incessant and annoying, skirmishing with their pickets and outposts.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

We never catch all of "whatever happens," and neither Callender saw the brave men in gray who for one moment of horror fled from their own guns in water-battery and fort; but all at once they beheld the _Tecumseh_ heave, stagger, and lurch like a drunkard, men spring from her turret into the sea, the _Brooklyn_ falter, slacken fire and draw back, the

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

Anna had it on her lips to cry, when the whole sunward side of the _Brooklyn, _ and then of the _Hartford, _ vomited fire, iron and blinding, strangling smoke into the water-battery and the fort, where the light air held it.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884