- The
counterguard (German: Kontergarde, French: contre-garde) is an
outwork in a
bastioned fortification system that
usually comprises only a low rampart...
- for a
counterguard to be
constructed in
front of them as
additional defences. This 1823
counterguard which was
originally named "Orange
Counterguard" was...
-
strengthened with the
construction of
various outworks,
consisting of four
counterguards along the land front, as well as a
covertway and a glacis. The northern...
-
behind constructing a
counterguard, like the
Montagu Counterguard in 1804, is that the
enemy has to
first capture the
counterguard in
order to take the...
- As a
result of O'Reily's reforms, the
Ravelin of San
Carlos and the
counterguard of La
Trinidad were built.
Further east, a fort
called El
Abanico and...
- run
parallel to one another.
Similar to the
couvreface is the
larger counterguard which, by contrast, was
designed to
enable the
positioning of guns. Couvrefaces...
- air-raid
shelter within Couvre Porte Counterguard. The
museum is
housed within the
Couvre Porte, a 17th-century
counterguard forming part of the fortifications...
-
surrounded by
tenailles before the
centres of the
curtain walls and
counterguards before the bastions. In
front of the
centre of each
curtain face was...
-
ravelins and redoubts,
bonnettes and lunettes,
tenailles and tenaillons,
counterguards and
crownworks and
hornworks and
curvettes and
faussebrayes and scarps...
-
fortifications of Valletta, with the main
fortification (a bastion) to the left, the
ditch in the centre, and the
outwork (a
counterguard) to the right...
