Marsa Battery

Marsa Battery
Batterija tal-Marsa
Part of the French blockade batteries
Marsa, Malta
Map of Marsa Battery and Jesuit Hill Battery
Coordinates
Type	Artillery battery
Site history
Built	c. 1798
Built by	Maltese insurgents
In use	c. 1798–1800
Materials	Limestone
Fate	Demolished
Battles/wars	Siege of Malta (1798–1800)

Marsa Battery flew the Union Jack

Marsa Battery (Maltese: Batterija tal-Marsa) was an artillery battery in Marsa, 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 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.