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- deter any attempt to storm the wall. The word originates from the French caponnière, meaning "chicken coop" (a capon is a castrated male chicken). In some...
- The 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" was a fortress gun and infantry gun developed during the 1880s in Britain which was sold to Belgium and...
- guns faced away from the city. Joining the Media Luna causeway was a caponniere. The San Lazaro battery's terreplein included aljibes, while channels...
- anti-tank gun  Sweden World War II 57 ****erill-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" / 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt  Belgium World War I 57 Type 97 57 mm  ****an...
- Leitch, after approaching the Redan with the leading ladders, formed a caponniere across the ditch as well as a ramp by fearlessly tearing down gabions...
- confused with the short-barreled 57 mm ****erill-Nordenfelt "Canon de caponnière" or fortification gun, which was used to arm the German A7V tank in World...
- Pauluskirche (Protestant) and St. Georg (catholic). In the Wilhelmsburg Caponniere 4 in Neu-Ulm Obere Donaubastion in Ulm West mountain front below the Wilhelmsburg...
- of fortification structure. The word originates from the French word caponnière. It is a type of fortification structure which allows firing along the...
- [Nouvel ****nal] New Armory [Nouvel ****nal] Cavalier Prinz Holstein Caponniere at Feldbergplatz Rheinschanzen Fort Großherzog [Fort Montebello] Inundationsschanze...
- bank. The moat was covered by one double and four single two-storey caponnieres, each with 4-gun embrasures and musketry loopholes. The fort was meant...