Already shaken by the fire of the Grand Battery, the Poles abandoned the fort and retreated before the surprised Russian infantry approached.
As the truck pulls up to the site, it is clear that an abandoned Nike battery offers little for the untrained eye.
If, a few years ago, you ever passed by the Statue of Liberty ferry dock and wondered about the huge white wooden building on the Battery Park pier — long abandoned, as eerie and old-world as the nearby Merchant Mariners' memorial — you can now investigate its mysteries yourself.
SREBRENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA — Across from the abandoned Potocari battery factory, where Muslim residents of this infamously brutalized town were imprisoned in 1995 before women were separated and the men and boys taken away to be killed, a memorial center has risen.
Rosebay willowherb I have known for ever, as a postwar adventurer in railways cuttings and abandoned gun batteries, setting off drifts of their parachute seeds with every step.
About four inches wide and six inches long, they are the cores of abandoned nuclear batteries that use natural radioactive decay and heat to produce electrical power, rather than actively breaking atoms apart, as nuclear reactors do.
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This community is near an abandoned lead-acid battery recycling smelter, and most of the residents showed signs of lead poisoning.
SANDY HOOK - RICHARD WELLS picked up stray soda cans as he led visitors through the abandoned Army gun batteries here at Fort Hancock, part of the Sandy Hook Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area.
The incident, which unfolded with little attention in December, has set off a monthlong international hunt through snowy mountains for the devices, which, it turns out, are abandoned Soviet nuclear batteries.
