The battery was constructed to take advantage of the improved breech loading guns then coming into service.
The two batteries are similarly constructed and linked to the barracks by underground tunnels.
Over the next four years, 265 batteries were constructed around the majority of major northern and coastal cities.
The single battery is similarly constructed and linked to the barracks by underground tunnels.
A twenty-gun battery was constructed on the reservation during the 1870s followed by a mine control casemate in 1892.
Four batteries were constructed to protect the various branches of the ditch.
The battery was first constructed in 1815 and improved over the years.
Four years later, an additional battery of 54 ovens was constructed.
In 1939, a new battery of two 6" guns was constructed at Warwick Camp.
In some jurisdictions, battery has recently been constructed to include directing bodily secretions at another person without his or her permission.