Marsa Battery ( mt, Batterija tal-Marsa) was an

artillery battery In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to fac ...

Marsa Marsa may refer to: Places *Marsa, Aude, a commune in the Aude départment of France * Marsa, Malta, a city in central Malta *Mârșa, a commune in Giurgiu County, Romania * La Marsa, a suburb of the city of Tunis, Tunisia *Mârșa, a village in Av ...

, Malta, built by Maltese insurgents during the French blockade of 1798–1800. It was part of a chain of batteries, redoubts and entrenchments encircling the French positions in

Marsamxett Marsamxett Harbour (), historically also referred to as Marsamuscetto, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta. It is located to the north of the larger Grand Harbour. The harbour is generally more dedicated to leisure use than the Grand Ha ...

and the Grand Harbour. The battery was built at the bottom of Jesuit Hill, close to the shoreline. Jesuit Hill Battery was located nearby on higher ground. The battery was small, and consisted of a small masonry parapet with three embrasures, a hardstone gun platform, a sentry room on the left, and a flanking rubble wall on the right. A magazine was also built to the rear of the battery. Marsa Battery was designed by Salvatore Camilleri from Valletta. Like the other French blockade fortifications, Marsa Battery was dismantled, possibly sometime after 1814. No traces of the battery can be seen today, and the area is now heavily industrialized. The site of the battery is now occupied by the

Marsa Power Station The Marsa Power Station was a power generation plan in urban Malta, on the side of the Grand Harbour close to Marsa. Operation With the support of the Marshall Plan, Station A was built underground under Jesuit Hill and opened in 1953. The ...

. Apart from the Battery on the hill, the insurgents built another smaller battery close to the seashore which was also demolished after the blockade. During the British period a battery, known as

Ta' Cejlu Battery Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Tāw , Hebrew Tav , Aramaic Taw , Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it is also ...

, was built for its eventual use in WWII - which no longer exits today. The battery was a typical anti-aircraft warfare battery, one of a series of batteries built around Malta. The latter was located at the top of the Jesuit's Hill, a strategic position in the Grand Harbour.http://www.illum.com.mt/printversion/49395/#.XH2KjhrTWhA

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