Definition of Caponiers. Meaning of Caponiers. Synonyms of Caponiers

- firing the roof of the caponier is often provided with ventilation ports. To avoid fire from one caponier bearing on the next, caponiers are sometimes set...
- the fort. The north caponier is a full caponier because it points in two directions. The other five caponiers are demi-caponiers because they face in...
- for example in the mutually supporting bastions of star forts, and the caponiers of later fortifications. Fire is delivered so that the long axis of the...
- fort became very low indeed, surrounded outside the ditch covered by caponiers by a gently sloping open area so as to eliminate possible cover for enemy...
- block. Its north projection has one full caponier to defend the dry ditch, and has two smaller demi-caponiers at the corners. A small musketry gallery...
- guard moved to the Citadel. In front of the gate stand two so-called caponiers from where it was possible to keep ****aulting troops under fire. The Norway...
- main body of the fort by a tunnel which p****ed under the ditch, or by a caponier, a gallery built across the floor of the ditch. Counterscarp: European...
- inner ditch around the keep was covered by a further three caponiers and two demi-caponiers which led into the earthwork ramparts in one direction and...
- fronted by ditches defended by covered firing galleries known as caponiers. One of the caponiers survives and is accessible from Guardhouse Square by a narrow...
- outworks (tenailles), the construction of bulwarks around most towers, and caponiers enfilading the ditch. Gates were reduced in number, and the old battlement...