A faussebraye (Italian: falsa braga) is a defensive wall located outside the main walls of a fortification. It is of a lower height than the main walls...
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rampart and prevent any falling debris from compromising the ditch. Faussebraye: a secondary parapet between the rampart and the inner edge of the ditch...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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barracks. The land front is further protected by the following outworks: a faussebraye in the form of a crownwork encircling the entire land front. St. Dominic...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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Salvatore Bastion on the western end of the lines, and constructing a faussebraye around the entire land front and a crowned hornwork near the eastern...
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Malta. It was originally built in 1721 as an advanced gate within the faussebraye of the Floriana Lines, and it was enlarged with the construction of a...
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tenaillons, counterguards and crownworks and hornworks and curvettes and faussebrayes and scarps and cordons and banquettes and counterscarps..." The star-shaped...
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showing a cross-section of the fortifications of Groenlo. From left to right: counterscarp, covertway, ditch, faussebraye and the main defensive wall....
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Vitré Saved components Demolished components 1 : St. Julien Chapel and Faussebraye (North) 2 : St. Pierre Postern 3 : Chèvres Tower 4 : Rompue or la Fresnaye...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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consists of several elements: a castle/citadel, the northern and southern faussebraye, a lower western platform (place-of-arms), and the extending double walls...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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with four bastions and a ravelin, surrounded by a ditch, covertway and faussebraye. Other proposals were made in 1715, this time by the knight René Jacob...
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Photo Faussebraye from La Vittoria Bastion to Porte des Bombes 35°53′31″N 14°29′57″E / 35.891953°N 14.499283°E / 35.891953; 14.499283 (Faussebraye) 01644...
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Faussebraye beneath St Andrew Bastion Triq l-Assedju l-Kbir 35°54′02″N 14°30′30″E / 35.900451°N 14.508420°E / 35.900451; 14.508420 (Faussebraye beneath...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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embedded in thick stone masonry in order to form a shielding plate, and faussebrayes were built to encompass five of the nine towers under an almost continuous...
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from loopholed redoubts in the re-entrant places-of-arms, from earthen faussebrayes, and long, concave double-bastioned flanks. These works were screened...
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Marsamxett Gate, which was demolished in the early 20th century. A small faussebraye is located beneath the bastion. Ponsonby's Column was built on the bastion...
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Chengqiang Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye Gatehouse Gord Hillfort Landwehr Limes Nuraghe Oppidum Palisade Pincer...
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Carlos de Grunenbergh visited the fort and recommended the addition of a faussebraye. He decided to finance the expenses himself. St. Michael Cavalier was...
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encircled by the Almohad wall was with the fallen parapets and destroyed the faussebraye, as well as the doors, without closing or rake. And he concluded by saying...
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2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015. "Traverse of Faussebraye – Mdina" (PDF). National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese...
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Fascist architecture Fatimid architecture Fatimid Great Palaces Fauces Faussebraye Federal architecture Federal modernism Federation architecture Fender...
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Traverse of Faussebraye SE corner of fortifications 35°53′04″N 14°24′16″E / 35.884555°N 14.404549°E / 35.884555; 14.404549 (Traverse of Faussebraye) 01461...
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walls; the earth rampart; the fortified breastwork; at its base the Faussebraye with another breastwork; then the escarpe wall; the wet moat; the contrescarpe;...
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number of outworks, including a ravelin, lunettes, counterguards and faussebrayes. "Le fortificazioni di Messina..." Messinastorica.it (in Italian). Archived...
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