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Definition of Counterguards

Counterguard
Counterguard Coun"ter*guard` (koun"t[~e]r*g[aum]rd`), n. (Fort.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

Meaning of Counterguards from wikipedia

- of it guards the work from a frontal enemy ****ault. The function of counterguards was to protect the higher ravelin or bastion behind it from direct fire...
- ravelins and redoubts, bonnettes and lunettes, tenailles and tenaillons, counterguards and crownworks and hornworks and curvettes and faussebrayes and scarps...
- 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...
- in addition he arranged for counterguards to be constructed in front of them in the Gibraltar Harbour. The counterguard, which mirrors the shape of its...
- 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...
- Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...
- Canal Chatham Counterguard Flêche Forbes' Barrier Glacis Grand Casemates Inundation King's Lines Lines of Contravallation Montagu Counterguard Prince's Lines...
- Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...
- 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...