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    The Albert Barracks was a major British military installation that overlooked Auckland, New Zealand, from the mid-1840s to 1870, during the city's early...
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    of the site of the Albert Barracks, one of Auckland's early European military fortifications. In the 1850s and 1860s, Albert Barracks to many soldiers including...
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    to secure the garrison by erecting security fences around most of the barracks and lines, as well as introducing armed security patrols. The garrison...
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    of Victoria in New Zealand. Erected on the former location of the Albert Barracks, the statue was a central point for various imperial and patriotic...
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    at Haren as its Tactical Air Forces headquarters, also called King Albert Barracks. To the south of that, across the expressway Leopold III Boulevard...
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    military barracks in Auckland. This was supplemented by the construction of the larger Albert Barracks in 1846. Fort Britomart and the Albert Barracks were...
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    by early settlers. In the 1870s, when major sewer work around the Albert Barracks was being undertaken, contractors discovered a Leptospermum scoparium...
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  • the Flagstaff War—Ōhaeawai, Ruapekapeka—and in the construction of Albert Barracks, Auckland. William Biddlecomb Marlow was born 19 February 1794 at Gosport...
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    founders agreed to purchase a handsome quarrystone building overlooking Albert Barracks in Princes Street. The four-storey building, a high-rise in its own...
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  • generations. On March 1, 1912, Jefferson Barracks became the main base for the first experiments in aviation parachuting. Albert Berry became the first person to...
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