- V-shaped
parts of outworks; the bottom-most image, a priest's cap, has two
tenailles. Also
shown is
another approach to
protect a gate; the
roughly triangular...
- Théodore
Tenaille-Saligny (22
February 1830 – 24
March 1889) was a
French lawyer,
civil servant and politician. He came from a
prosperous family, was a...
- the
outward works ; such as from the
higher flank to the lower, to the
tenailles, or the
communication from the
middle of the
curtain to the ravelin. When...
- the
lower part of the main wall.
Further structures, such as ravelins,
tenailles,
hornworks or crownworks, and even
detached forts could be
added to create...
- reduced, and
beyond the ditch,
additional outworks such as
ravelins and
tenailles were
added to
protect the
curtain walls from
direct cannonading. Bawn...
- re-entering
angle at the point. It was
sometimes also
called bastion with a
tenaille. Such
bastions were used, when
without such a structure, the
angle would...
-
bastioned land
front and its outworks, an
enceinte facing the sea, and a
tenaille trace facing Rinella Bay of the
Grand Harbour. The land
front consists...
- with a
transformation of the old
counterscarp into m****ive
outworks (
tenailles), the
construction of
bulwarks around most towers, and
caponiers enfilading...
-
greater area than the city itself. The
inner walls were
surrounded by
tenailles before the
centres of the
curtain walls and
counterguards before the bastions...
- Éléonore
Tenaille de
Vaulabelle (12 Oct. 1801 – 12
October 1859 ) was a
French writer and playwright. He
published his
novels under the
pseudonym Ernest...
