Retrieved 1 March 2010. Mougin Model 1876 at fortiffsere.fr (in French) Mougin 155 mm casemate at fortiffsere.fr (in French) Mougin turret installations...
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guns protected by iron armour or revolving Mougin turrets. The vulnerable masonry of the accommodation casemates were built facing away from an opponent...
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Charleville Mézières. The Mougin gun was removed at about this time, but the casemate remains. In addition to its own Mougin casemate, the pentagonal detached...
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produced by Commandant Henri-Louis-Philippe Mougin in France and Captain Maximilian Schumann in Germany. Mougin's designs were incorporated in a new generation...
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caponiers with counterscarps, and preparations for a Mougin turret with two 155 mm guns. The Mougin turret and guns were installed in 1914, along with two...
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armour in new ways. In 1875, the Mougin system of laminated armour, using rolled iron, was first used in casemates to provide protection against field...
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fortifications on 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...
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fourth cruise took place in 1781. She was under the command of François Mougin with 88 men, 16 guns, and 4 swivel guns at the time she was captured. HMS Leith...
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barracks and court, uniquely in the Séré de Rivières system. A second Mougin casemate was proposed in 1878, but never carried out. In 1940 the fort was manned...
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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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often credited with designing the first railway gun in 1883. Commandant Mougin is credited with putting guns on rail cars in 1870. The French arms maker...
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featured two Mougin casemates mounting 155 mm guns, as well as an initial18 guns on the rampart and 8 guns in a separate battery. Two casemates in the main...
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by a 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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railway line whose vestiges remain visible. An 1880 project to install a Mougin casemate never came to fruition. The fort was away from the fighting during...
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which in 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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Jean-Félix Houssois. Her third cruise took place in 1781. She was under François Mougin with 88 men, 16 guns, and 4 swivel guns until the British captured her in...
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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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fortification considerably. It is organized around a Mougin turret with two 155 mm guns, one of only two working Mougin turrets. The guns were returned from Fort...
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Cocteau Museum Musée de préhistoire régionale Mougins Musée de l'automobile Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins Nice Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain...
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