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The Needles Batteries

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The Needles Batteries
The Needles Batteries. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Needles Batteries are two military batteries built above the Needles stacks to guard the West end of the Solent. The field of fire was from approximately West South West clockwise to Northeast and they were designed to defend against enemy ships.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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