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The Fort of San Diego in
Algeciras was a military installation built around 1730 as a result of the policy of fortification of the area near Gibraltar undertaken by the government of Spain .
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on 14 February 1810 to the satisfaction o crowds who had come to see the spectacle. Following the main explosion other towers were destroyed and volunteers took away the rubble.
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in 1704 to protect the city from the possibility of a
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The fort was destroyed in 1811 during Spain's alliance with the United
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