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Bastion
it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain or wall which extends from one bastion to another Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain which joins the flank of one with the
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Demibastion
A half bastion or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank
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Counterguard
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion and protecting them
Demigorge
Half the gorge or entrance into a bastion taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion
Crownwork
A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts with their outworks covering an enceinte a bridgehead etc and connected by wings with the main work
Bulwark
A rampart a fortification a bastion or outwork
Demilune
A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress and in front of the curtain between two bastions intended to defend the curtain a ravelin See Ravelin
Epaule
The shoulder of a bastion or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle called the angle of the
Guerite
A projecting turret for a sentry as at the salient angles of works or the acute angles of bastions
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Bastioned - Law Dictionary Search Results
Bastion
it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain or wall which extends from one bastion to another Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain which joins the flank of one with the
Bastioned
Matched in: Term Bastioned
Demibastion
A half bastion or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Counterguard
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion and protecting them
Demigorge
Half the gorge or entrance into a bastion taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion
Crownwork
A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts with their outworks covering an enceinte a bridgehead etc and connected by wings with the main work
Bulwark
A rampart a fortification a bastion or outwork
Demilune
A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress and in front of the curtain between two bastions intended to defend the curtain a ravelin See Ravelin
Epaule
The shoulder of a bastion or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle called the angle of the
Guerite
A projecting turret for a sentry as at the salient angles of works or the acute angles of bastions
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