Caponier (redirect from Caponnière)
deter any attempt to storm the wall. The word originates from the French caponnière, meaning "chicken coop" (a capon is a castrated male chicken). In some...
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The 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" was a fortress gun and infantry gun developed during the 1880s in Britain which was sold to Belgium and...
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anti-tank gun Sweden World War II 57 Cockerill-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" / 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt Belgium World War I 57 Type 97 57 mm Japan...
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confused with the short-barreled 57 mm Cockerill-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" or fortification gun, which was used to arm the German A7V tank in World...
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guns faced away from the city. Joining the Media Luna causeway was a caponniere. The San Lazaro battery's terreplein included aljibes, while channels...
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Leitch, after approaching the Redan with the leading ladders, formed a caponniere across the ditch as well as a ramp by fearlessly tearing down gabions...
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of fortification structure. The word originates from the French word caponnière. It is a type of fortification structure which allows firing along the...
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Pauluskirche (Protestant) and St. Georg (catholic). In the Wilhelmsburg Caponniere 4 in Neu-Ulm Obere Donaubastion in Ulm West mountain front below the Wilhelmsburg...
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bank. The moat was covered by one double and four single two-storey caponnieres, each with 4-gun embrasures and musketry loopholes. The fort was meant...
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Invasion of the Kuril Islands Note: a French term or phrase French: caponnière in fortification, is a passage made from one work to another, of 10 or...
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[Nouvel arsenal] New Armory [Nouvel arsenal] Cavalier Prinz Holstein Caponniere at Feldbergplatz Rheinschanzen Fort Großherzog [Fort Montebello] Inundationsschanze...
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special concrete. A pentagon, the fort is surrounded by covered trench caponnières. The entrance to the fort is via a Pont Dormant extended by an overhead...
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fort and the ravelin of Savoie is modified with the addition of an open caponniere including parapets and palisades. Curtains of the North and East fronts...
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