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In [[fortification]], the '''capital''' of a [[bastion]] is a line drawn either from the angle [[Category:Fortification (architectural elements)]] ...

In [[fortification]], caserns are little rooms, lodgments, or apartments, erected between the [[Category:Fortification (architectural elements)]] ...

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A '''cavalier''' is a [[fortification]] which is built within a larger fortification, and which is higher than the rest of the work. It usually consists of a ra ...cite book|last1=Pasley|first1=Charles William|title=A Course of Elementary Fortification - Volume II|date=1822|publisher=John Murray|location=[[London]]|pages=337–3 ...

*[[Curtain wall (fortification)|Curtain wall]] [[Category:Fortification (architectural elements)]] ...

{{Short description|Outer side of a ditch or moat in a fortification}} ...counterscarp''' are the inner and outer sides, respectively, of a [[ditch (fortification)|ditch]] or [[moat]] used in fortifications. Attackers (if they have not br ...

...t, through a ring of heavy [[fortification]]s or through enhancing through fortification the defences offered by natural features such as mountains, will be defende ...[[National redoubt]] is fairly commonly used. A [[redoubt]] is an outlying fortification, so its use to describe the [[Alpine Fortress|Nazis' National Redoubt]] in ...

* [[Curtain wall (fortification)]] [[Category:Fortification (architectural elements)]] ...

{{Short description|Triangular fortification}} ...cation)|lunette]]'', the ravelin is placed outside a castle and opposite a fortification curtain wall. ...

{{short description|Architectural structure}} {{About|an architectural structure|the large tree root|Buttress root|the Royal Canadian Air Force st ...

...ossible [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]]) construction due to certain design elements of the fortress walls. Later in the 14th century, Androusa developed into a ...-Roman, or [[Latin Empire]] era are also revealed on the inner part of the fortification. ...

...round, polygonal or square.<ref name=pevsner1>{{cite book |title=Pevsner's Architectural Glossary |year=2010 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-16721- [[Category:Fortification (architectural elements)]] ...

...re.com/wy/svenskildbiter/madict.html A Dictionary of Military Architecture Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century]'', Drawings by [[Category:Fortification (architectural elements)]] ...

...tet–Elements Antwerp |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/11882/Cointet-Elements-Antwerp.htm|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.tracesofwar.com|language=en} ...9 and May 1940. Following tests, the [[Belgian Army]] accepted the Cointet-elements in 1936 after slightly altering the design by the addition of eight vertica ...

| architectural = ...on public exhibit within the complex. The complex includes other historic elements, such as a fountain by French architect and sculptor Dieudonné-Barthélemy G ...

{{short description|Type of fortification structure}} ...n]]. Fire from this point could cover the ditch beyond the [[curtain wall (fortification)|curtain wall]] to deter any attempt to storm the wall. The word originates ...

...especially in the construction of [[city wall]]s, [[castle]]s, and other [[fortification]]s before and during the [[Middle Ages]]. These stone walls are spread thro ...all: The Historic Ramparts of Quebec City|url=https://justinpluslauren.com/fortification-wall-of-quebec-city/|accessdate=2022-10-10|work=justinpluslauren.com|date=1 ...

{{Short description|Protective slope built into a fortification}} Glacises, also called [[Talus (fortification)|taluses]], were incorporated into medieval fortifications to strengthen th ...

{{Short description|Formal permission to build a fortification}} ...the person named within had been granted permission by the king to build a fortification.<ref name=Goodall9>Goodall (2011), p.9</ref> During periods of conflict, th ...