What is Georges Head Battery?
[[Image:MiddleGeorgeshedfort0094.JPG|thumb|right|300px]] The '''Georges Head Battery''', also called the '''Georges Head Military Fortifications''' is a fort on the Georges Head, in the suburb of [[Mosman, New South Wales|Mosman]] in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. The Georges Head fort is one of many forts that were built on [[Sydney Harbour]] meant to defend the colony of New South Wales, just in case another country tried to invade our country [[Australia]]. The fort became the boss of all other forts in the 1890s organizing all of Sydney's harbour forts.<ref>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:MiddleGeorgeshedfort0195.JPG</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.harbourtrust.gov.au/downloads/acrobat/planfigures/fig7-4.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-02-01 |archive-date=2007-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108193602/http://www.harbourtrust.gov.au/downloads/acrobat/planfigures/fig7-4.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==History== [[Image:MiddleGeorgeshedfort0083.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Former officers resident and barrack, now a restaurant]] [[Image:MiddleGeorgeshedfort0014.JPG|thumb|right|200px|A fortified gun emplacement]] [[Image:MiddleGeorgeshedfort0036.JPG|thumb|right|200px|In one of the battery's trenches]] The area where the fort is was once home to Aborigines that lived in the area for thousands of years and long before Europeans visited and decided to stay.<ref>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:MiddleGeorgeshedfort0135.JPG</ref> Georges Head fort was built in 1871 after the [[British Army]] decided to leave Australia in 1870. When they left the responsibility for protecting Sydney and Sydney Harbour was now in the hands of rich colonies like New South Wales and Victoria who now had to organise its own defences. Georges Head was near the entrance to Sydney Harbour and was meant to defend against enemy ships (foreign ships that are not friendlies) before they could get into the harbour. The fort was on a very good spot and was positioned high above sea le