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    The cheval de frise (plural: chevaux de frise [ʃə.vo də fʁiz], "Frisian horses") was a defensive obstacle, existing in a number of forms, principally...
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    and used through war's end in 1782. Two other barriers across the river, referred to as chevaux-de-frise, were undertaken by the Colonials; the first,...
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  • that ran in the 2009 Kentucky Derby Frisian horse or cheval de frise, a type of military barrier Frisian School, a school of philosophy based on the works...
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  • intervals along a log or beam to form a Cheval de frise.[1] This could be used, for example, as a moveable barrier to bar a gateway. Alternatively, three...
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    the colonies. Erskine designed a tetrahedron-shaped marine cheval-de-frise, a defensive barrier of pointed logs strung together abreast the river to prevent...
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    the ground, as well as notches for attaching barbed wire. Caltrop Cheval de frise, a portable frame covered with many long iron or wooden spikes used...
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    also as siege towers. Later, this term could cover mobile barriers like the cheval de frise. It was probably just an adaptation of the German term "wagenburg"...
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    "Spanish rider" is a modern wire obstacle functionally similar to the cheval de frise, and sometimes called that. Triple concertina wire fence. A complex...
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    tower Caer Caltrop Castle Chamber gate Chartaque Chashi Chemin de ronde Chemise Cheval de frise Citadel Coercion castle Concentric castle Corner tower Counter-castle...
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    deep embrasures with arrowslits are to be seen at Aigues-Mortes and Château de Coucy, both in France. With the introduction of firearms, the term embrasure...
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    tower Caer Caltrop Castle Chamber gate Chartaque Chashi Chemin de ronde Chemise Cheval de frise Citadel Coercion castle Concentric castle Corner tower Counter-castle...
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    permanent barriers, purpose-built obstacles became standard. The most common types were Czech hedgehogs (Panzersperre) or cheval de frise (Stahligel...
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    tower Caer Caltrop Castle Chamber gate Chartaque Chashi Chemin de ronde Chemise Cheval de frise Citadel Coercion castle Concentric castle Corner tower Counter-castle...
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  • compare Old Fr. and modern Fr. cerise chess, Old Fr. esches chestnut cheval de frise cheval glass chevalier chevauchée chevron Cheyenne, Fr. Cheyenne, from...
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    breached, they could either place obstacles in the breach, for example a cheval de frise to hinder a forlorn hope, or construct a coupure. The great concentric...
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    de Sicco van Goslinga, publiés par mm. U. A. Evertsz et G. H. M. Delprat, au nom de la Société d’histoire, d’archéologie et de linquistique de Frise,...
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    The Porte d'Eich (de) and Porte des Bons-Malades (de) gate towers on the Vauban-designed fortified pedestrian bridge, Béinchen (de) (built 1864–1865)...
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    to control access to the road, to the barriers once used to defend against attack by cavalry (see cheval de frise). The turnpike consisted of a row of...
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    (Stephen Langton, Thomas Robert Fitzwalter by Frederick Thrupp and Sieur de Quincy by James Westmacott) have been restored and are displayed in The Beaney...
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    tower Caer Caltrop Castle Chamber gate Chartaque Chashi Chemin de ronde Chemise Cheval de frise Citadel Coercion castle Concentric castle Corner tower Counter-castle...
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    Guimaraens Igual, Guillermo (2007). El último hálito de la fortificación abalartuada. El fuerte de San Julián de Cartagena (1) (doctoral thesis). Technical University...
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