-
occupying the
salient vulnerable. The opponent's
front line that
borders a
salient is
referred to as a re-entrant – that is, an
angle pointing inwards...
- (a
French word for "projection", "
salient") is a
feature of fortifications. It is a work in a V-shaped
salient angle towards an
expected attack. It can...
- fort (New Zealand: Pa (Māori)) Lunette: an
outwork consisting of a
salient angle with two
flanks and an open gorge. Magazine: a
protected place within...
- Gardens. St. John's
Bastion – a
large obtuse-
angled bastion with a
reconstructed echaugette at its
salient angle. It now
forms part of
Hastings Gardens. St...
- its
position just
north of the
point where the
Bernese Alps
makes a
salient angle,
whose apex is the Eiger. From there, a
series of high
peaks rise in...
-
Redan is a
fortification work in a V-shaped
salient angled toward an
expected attack Redan may also
refer to: Redan, Georgia, a town in the
United States...
- also
refer to:
Lunette (fortification), an
outwork consisting of a
salient angle with two
flanks and an open
gorge Lunette (Gargoyles), a
fictional character...
-
railway line, but it did
swing sharply clockwise. It thus
formed a
salient angle. The
result was that
their position on the farm
Bergendal (occupied...
-
during the
Crimean War) A type of
fortification work in a V-shaped
salient angle toward an
expected attack.
Rodinia (from the
Russian ро́дина, "motherland")...
- earthworks; the
ground plan was
polygonal with a
pentangle bastion at each
salient angle,
covered by ravelins, hornworks, crownworks, and demi-lunes....
