- A
hornwork is an
element of the
Italian bastion system of fortification. Its face is
flanked with a pair of half-bastions. It is
distinguished from a crownwork...
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extended eastward to
create a
bastion or "
hornwork",
providing a more
securely defended entrance. The
hornwork comprises a pair of
walls enclosing a triangular...
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strong with a
large hornwork blocking the
approaches with the
higher town
walls mounting guns that
could fire over the
hornwork to
protect it. "It was...
- the rear of the
hornwork. From
there they
opened a
scattered fire on the French. The
defenders suddenly stampeded,
leaving the
hornwork in the Allies'...
-
fortified tower in
honor of King
Philip II, who
oversaw its
expansion into a
hornwork fort by 1595. Over the next 200 years,
especially in the
reign of King...
- set of
defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts, towers, bastions,
hornworks, moats,
tunnels and ravelins,
among other defensive elements. It was built...
- its
enfilading fire. Such fire was
still provided by a
large protruding hornwork to the
north of the gate and the
Groene Halve Maan, a demi-lune to its...
-
trace italienne system of
fortification and is
effectively an
expanded hornwork (a type of outwork). It
consists of a full
bastion with the
walls on either...
-
sometimes referred to as a type of
outwork or 'advanced outwork'. The
hornwork and
crownwork are
subtypes of outworks. List of
established military terms...
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which make a tenaille, or re-entry angle.
Their chief use is
before a
hornwork or crownwork.
Castillo de San
Marcos (completed 1695), Florida. Four-bastion...
