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...

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...

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...

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...

guns faced away from the city. Joining the Media Luna causeway was a caponniere. The San Lazaro battery's terreplein included aljibes, while channels...

of fortification structure. The word originates from the French word caponnière. It is a type of fortification structure which allows firing along the...

[Nouvel arsenal] New Armory [Nouvel arsenal] Cavalier Prinz Holstein Caponniere at Feldbergplatz Rheinschanzen Fort Großherzog [Fort Montebello] Inundationsschanze...

Pauluskirche (Protestant) and St. Georg (catholic). In the Wilhelmsburg Caponniere 4 in Neu-Ulm Obere Donaubastion in Ulm West mountain front below the Wilhelmsburg...

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...

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...

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...

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...