File:EL ABANICO BATTERY VIEWED FROM TO OF GLACIS LOOKING WEST. - Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR HABS PR,7-SAJU,56-1.tif
Related names:
- Price, Virginia B, transmitter
EL ABANICO BATTERY VIEWED FROM TO OF GLACIS LOOKING WEST. - Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR
Price, Gigi, transmitter; Behrens, Tom, transmitter; Boucher, Jack E, photographer
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HABS PR,7-SAJU,56-1
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- Significance: It was built 1779-1783 by military engineer Thomas O'Daly, Chief of the Spanish Corps of Engineers in San Juan. It is a bastion-fort in the outer works of Castillo San Cristobal, a fan-shpaed design determined by 3 gun emplacements for cross-fire. Through an embrasure in the parapet of the ravelin to cover the eastern approach of the fort. Of special interest is a system of mining galleries under the terrepleine. This structure appears to have been only slightly modified by 19th-20th century revisions and remains an intact example of the fortifications erected by Spain to protect its holdings in the new world...
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N103
- Survey number: HABS PR-94
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