and is surrounded by a deep stone lined moat. The towers of the grande enceinte now stand only to the height of the walls, having been demolished in the...

accordingly, fortresses occupied a key position in warfare. Passive ring-shaped (Enceinte) fortifications of the Medieval era proved vulnerable to damage or destruction...

polygonal enceinte broken up by large cylindrical towers. Enguerrand de Coucy bought the seigneury in 1380 and his daughter sold it in 1400 to Louis d' Orléans...

castles on the site. The château de Renard, 961–1131, was situated within the upper part of the enceinte. The king, Louis VI, attacked and destroyed this...

abandonment which reduced it to the state of ruin. The site includes an enceinte, partly rebuilt in the 15th century, which surrounded the fortress halfway...

the old Brialmont polygonal forts. The fourth and largest, Fort Eben-Emael, had its enceinte defined by the great cutting of the Albert Canal. The war...

protective wall (enceinte)—Major Provost's palisade—was built by command of Governor General of New France Louis de Buade, sieur de Frontenac and completed...

fortifications of Valletta and Senglea, and the construction of the Carafa Enceinte around Fort Saint Elmo. Grunenbergh came to Malta again in 1687, and designed...

to the enceinte of Paris that they served as outworks rather than independent forts. The decision about where to place the southern line of forts may have...

Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from...

The new enceinte was modelled after designs from Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry, and was built further west than the original enceinte in order to...

are two lines of defence, an inner enceinte de sûreté, the bastion wall around the city, and an outer enceinte de combat, a system of concentric star-shaped...

The Thiers wall (French: Enceinte de Thiers) was the last of the defensive walls of Paris. It was an enclosure constructed between 1841 and 1846 and was...

the construction of two forts on the plateau of Caluire (Fort de Montessuy and Fort de Caluire, connected by the Enceinte de Caluire), facing the Dombes;...

notably the Halle Gate. The first walls of Brussels (French: première enceinte, Dutch: eerste stadsomwalling) were a series of fortifications erected...

line; there were no juramentados among them. Although the double enceinte and the star fort in the interior would have been effective against guerrilleros...

vigorous resistance, in the Hundred Days. As a fortress, Maubeuge has an old enceinte of bastion trace which serves as the center of an important entrenched...

The southern walls of the city were completely rebuilt as a bastioned enceinte with a single bastion and two demi-bastions linked by curtain walls, along...

monuments de Paris en 1855; rééd. par Maisonneuve et Laroze, 1993, p. 132. Renaud Gagneux et Denis Prouvost, Sur les traces des enceintes de Paris, Parigramme...

27 September 1534 "Since the king began to doubt whether his lady was enceinte or not, he has renewed and increased the love he formerly had for a beautiful...

Retrieved 1 March 2023. Guignon, Jordane (24 March 2010). "Monica Bellucci enceinte et presque nue pour 'Vanity Fair'" [Monica Bellucci pregnant and almost...

the Louis XIV, Bertuste, Bayonet, and Emigrés redoubts, situated along the border and overlooking the Bidassoa River as well as the route from Vera de Bidassoa...

Algiers Ghardaïa Timimoun Al-Fustat Cairo Damietta See List of Egypt castles, forts, fortifications and city walls. Harar Apollonia Benghazi Cyrene Derna Germa...

Port Royal. The Governor of Acadia Louis-Alexandre des Friches de Menneval had only 70 soldiers; the unfinished enceinte remained open and its 18 cannon...

nouvelles, 1912 Paroles devant la vie : la vie, le poète, la fiancée, la femme enceinte, la mère, soi-même, la demeure, la mort, 1913 La Paix armée et le problème...

Center for Early Modern History (25 September 2000). City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-521-65221-6...

period. The first two levels were excavated; the findings include a temple (Enceinte Sacrée or sacred enclosure) dedicated to an unknown deity, a pillared throne...

2024. Marokko Ingeborg Lehmann, Rita Henss p.243 City walls: the urban enceinte in global perspective, James D. Tracy, p.352 Notes to The History and Description...

Jean (2013). Châteaux et enceintes de la France médiévale : De la défense à la résidence (in French). Vol. 1. Les organes de la défense (2nd ed.). Paris:...

later on in the 17th century, especially by the building of the Carafa Enceinte in 1687. With the development of new technologies, by the 17th century...