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    A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armoured structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle. When...
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    Grand Casemates is a building in Grand Casemates Square, Gibraltar, that was originally a fortified barracks and casemate. It is beside Grand Casemates Gates...
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    Beehive Casemate is a historical fortification located on the banks of Obelisk Bay, in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Sydney...
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    The casemate ironclad was a type of iron or iron-armored gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and the Union...
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  • Casemate Publishers is a publishing company based in the Philadelphia suburbs that specializes in producing printed military history books. They have published...
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  • The casemate du Grand-Lot is an interval casemate CORF of the Maginot line, located in the city of Escherange, in the Lorraine region of France. As part...
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    The Casemates of Ibrahim Pasha (Turkish: İbrahim Paşa Tabyaları), are a number of casemates built by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt in 1833 to the north of Gülek...
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    Maginot Line. Casemate d'Auenheim Nord is an infantry casemate of the Maginot Line located in the town of Auenheim, in Alsace. The casemate is a simple...
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    01000°E / 48.82722; 8.01000 The Casemate de Rountzenheim Nord is a casemate of interval infantry of the Maginot Line. The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog...
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    Grand Casemates Square (colloquially Casemates Square or Casemates) is the larger of the two main squares within the city centre of Gibraltar (the other...
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  • The Casemate d'Oberroedern Sud, also known as Casemate Reiffel and Oberroedern Est, is a pre-World War II fortified position near the Rhine River in eastern...
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    The Casemate d'Esch is a pre-World War II fortified position near the German frontier in extreme northeastern France. Built in 1931, the casemate was...
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    sector of the Maginot Line. The Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud is an interval infantry casemate of the Maginot Line. The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog...
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    ship, also known as a centre battery ship in the United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development of the (high-freeboard)...
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    Mougin casemate, which employs the 155 mm Model 1877 gun on a hydraulic traversing carriage within an armored concrete casemate. The casemate has exceptionally...
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  • condition when compared to other abandoned Maginot positions. A flanking casemate has been restored and may be visited. Bréhain was approved for construction...
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    Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-935149-04-0. World War II at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions...
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    The Fort Hommet 10.5 cm coastal defence gun casemate bunker is a fully restored gun casemate that was part of Fortress Guernsey constructed by the forces...
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    refers to anti-tank variants of existing tank chassis with a well-armored casemate superstructure that mount an anti-tank gun with limited traverse in the...
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    at the same time. A series of detached casemates and observation points surround Fermont, including the: Casemate de Puxieux: Single block with one JM/AC47...
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    months of confinement were spent in a cell of the casemated fort walls that is now part of its Casemate Museum. Around the turn of the 20th century, numerous...
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    between Nice and Menton, facing towards Italy. The ouvrage and its advance casemate at Pont Saint Louis controlled the coastal roads along the Mediterranean...
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    a Soviet tank destroyer armed with the D-10S 100 mm anti-tank gun in a casemate superstructure. It was used extensively during the last year of World War...
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  • The Casemate de Wittring is a component of the Maginot Line fortifications in northeastern France. It is located in the Fortified Sector of the Sarre section...
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    and the vast underground system of passages and galleries known as the casemates continue to be a major tourist attraction. It was in 963 that Count Siegfried...
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    Object 268. The Object 268 was a casemate design, with a heavily armoured superstructure and powerful 152mm gun. The casemate reached 187mm of rolled homogenous...
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    Empire. Casemate walls could surround an entire settlement, but most only protected part of it. The three different types included freestanding casemate walls...
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    0999278°E / 49.4186028; 6.0999278. The casemate was armed with one mortar cloche and one GFM cloche. Several other casemates and infantry shelters are located...
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    Green-water navy Blue-water navy Gun placement Broadside Central battery Casemate Turrets Aircraft carriers Amphibious assault ship Anti-submarine warfare...
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    several casemates: Casemate de Moiry: Double block with two JM/AC47 embrasures, two JM embrasures, two AM cloches and two GFM-B cloches. Casemate de Sainte-Marie:...
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