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    The Mougin turret is a land-based revolving gun turret that housed some of the heaviest armament in French fortifications of the late 19th and early 20th...
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    armoured turrets. Pioneering designs were produced by Commandant Henri-Louis-Philippe Mougin in France and Captain Maximilian Schumann in Germany. Mougin's designs...
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  • engineer Nicolas Mougin (born 1979), French vert skater Mougin brothers, French sculptors and ceramists Mougin turret, a French gun turret Mougins, a commune...
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    Séré de Rivières system had guns protected by iron armour or revolving Mougin turrets. The vulnerable masonry of the accommodation casemates were built facing...
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    providing protection against heavier siege guns. Mougin also devised the Mougin turret, a revolving cast iron turret for 155 mm (6.1 in) guns. Cast iron was not...
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    for a Mougin turret with two 155 mm guns. The Mougin turret and guns were installed in 1914, along with two machine gun turrets, a 75mm gun turret and two...
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    around a Mougin turret with two 155 mm guns, one of only two working Mougin turrets. The guns were returned from Fort Barbonnet, which had two turrets. Four...
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    completed in 1882. The fort was updated in 1911 with a machine gun turret and a Mougin turret with two 155 mm guns. The Fort de Vaujours is unique in its association...
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    ditch defended by caponiers and counterscarps. The fort featured a Mougin turret with two 155 mm guns. A cavalier, or elevated surface for artillery...
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  • the old Fort Suchet, which was already armed with two obsolete Mougin 155 mm gun turrets. Fort Suchet was built between 1883 and 1888 at 850 metres altitude...
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    caponiers on the east and west sides. The fort's main armament was a 155mm Mougin turret, added in 1884. Other artillery on the firing terrace, or cavalier,...
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    turn contained magazines and barracks, as well as two twin 155mm Mougin gun turrets, which constituted the fort's primary armament. It was originally...
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  • destroyed. It consisted of barracks, a bakery, powder magazines, a turret Mougin, single and double caponiers. Despite a clearance operation carried...
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    The large trapezoidal fort's main armament was a twin 155mm Mougin turret. The turret remains, but its guns have been removed. After the First World...
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    Frenchmen like Mougin himself perfected fort gun turrets and made them retractable using counterweights. The Swiss built a prototype of Mougin's fort at Airolo [de]...
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    plague victims, would hold their meetings there. The shape of the bell-turret is an indication that the village once belonged to the Republic of Genoa...
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    The hillside village is overlooked by the spire-like remnants of the main turret of the castle of the Lascaris, which was built in the 14th century as protection...
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  • Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais Montreuil-Bellay Montverdun Moret-sur-Loing Morlaix Mougins Mouzon, Ardennes Nabas, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Nages-et-Solorgues Nantes...
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  • Montmorency, Paris 16 th 1905 Monument to commander Amédée-François Lamy, Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes 1908 Villa Lahovary, Leordeni, Romania 1909 7 storey house...
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