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Chavonnes Battery
The Chavonnes Battery was a fortification protecting Cape Town, South Africa, built in the early 18th century. It is now a museum and function venue.
==History==
The battery was one of the coastal fortifications of the Cape Peninsula linked to the Castle of Good Hope. It was built in 1714–1725 by the Dutch East India Company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.waterfront.co.za/home/history/historycontent/Pages/popup_historicalimages.aspx?image=41 )〕 and named after its originator, Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes, who was the governor of the Cape Colony.
The battery was built in a “U” shape with a stone wall built on a rocky outcrop on the Western flank at the waters edge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chavonnesbattery.co.za/ )〕 It had 16 mounted guns with an arc of fire of nearly 180 degrees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.capetown.travel/attractions/entry/chavonnes_battery_museum/ )〕 The battery also served as a prison and a quarantine and convalescent wing of the old Somerset Hospital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sa-venues.com/attractionswc/waterfront.htm )〕
It was used to protect the bay and town until 1861 when construction work started on the Alfred basin and some of the stone and rubble from the site was used to create a breakwater. Further damage occurred when coal bunkers and later a fish factory were built over the site.
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