Events

8th July, 2018 The Battle of Salamanca – not a local pub brawl. Salamanca Place, at the foot of Battery Point, was named after the famous Battle of Salamanca in Spain, one of many battles in the Peninsular Campaign (1807 – 1814) part of the Napoleonic Wars stretching over 12 Read more…

26th April, 2018 If you were at the dawn commemoration of ANZAC day in Hobart yesterday, you may have wondered why the monument has the date for WW1 as 1914 – 1919, when so many others use the end date as 1918. This monument was constructed in 1925 to commemorate Read more…