The Portuguese turned to the harder sell of naval batteries, driving off a trading fleet in the year 1509 in order to control the Malabar coast.

Over the next several weeks, he constructed naval batteries along the river.

He commanded a naval battery at the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

He also served ashore with the naval battery during the attacks against Vera Cruz in March 1847.

After 1815 it was abandoned, then reactivated from 1861 until 1865 during the American Civil War as an 11 gun, 8 inch Rodman naval battery.

In the northern section, the forces of Marina was on its way to Cavite, protected by the naval batteries.

The shells were first employed in naval batteries, but soon found their way to land-based howitzers as well.

Beyond were the mountains where rebel artillery waited to shell the city and the cool blue sea with loyalist naval batteries pounding the coast.

However, the Finns and the Estonians had secret military exercises in the early 1930s, reconstructing the tsarist naval batteries.

Acqui also had naval coastal batteries, torpedo boats and two aircraft.