10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERSCARP»
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counterscarp in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
An Elementary Course of Military Engineering
Counterscarp Galleries. Pl. 4, Fig. 35. The most simple method of arranging a
gallery behind a counterscarp wall for the defence of a ditch, is to build another
wall parallel to that of the counterscarp, and'to throw an arch over between the
two to ...
2
Treatises on geometrical drawing: on the arms in use: on ...
In tracing the crest of its parapet, a small flank is obtained, firing more directly on
the salient of the ravelin, than the face on that side could do ; by making 18 feet of
the parapet, at the extremity of the face, meet the counterscarp of the ravelin ...
Woolwich roy. military acad, 1843
3
Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of ...
No. 3. No. 1. For 60 men. No. 2. For 30 men. For 12 men and a keeper, or 18 men
without a keeper. Conditions. Without Counterscarp. With Counterscarp. Without
Counterscarp. With Counterscarp. Without Counterscarp. With Counterscarp.
Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers, 1839
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Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of ...
However, this is presupposing that the besieger would breach and storm the
escarp without having previously destroyed the enfilade fire of the ditch. In the
third place, objection has been made to placing counterscarp casemates in the
salient ...
Great Britain. Corps of Royal Engineers, 1863
5
A Course of Elementary Fortification: Including Rules, ...
Loop-holed galleries are commonly placed at or near the salients of the
counterscarp immediately under the covered way, their arches being supported
on one side by the counterscarp revetment, and on the other, by a wall built
parallel to it.
Sir Charles William Pasley, 1822
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A treatise on fortification ..., with observations on the ...
For the covered-way : trace the crest of the glacis at five toises parallel to the
general outline of the counterscarp. For the redoubt in the re-entering place of
arms, bisect the reentering angle of the counterscarp of the covered-way by a
capital ...
7
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, Dictionary of Arts, ...
The Ravelin is a work constructed opposite the curtain, and composed of two
faces meeting in an outward or salient angle, with two demigorges formed by the
counterscarp. Its use is to cover the curtain, the gates, and the flanks of the
bastion.
Thomas Stewart Traill, 1855
8
Course of Military Instruction Orginally Composed for the ...
Mark the thickness of the counterscarp revetment at top. ' \ 0 Draw the back of the
counterscarp revetment. Rub out superfluous lines in your counterscarp
revetment. The counterscarp revetment usually has a coping, or upper course of
cut ...
Sir Charles William Pasley, 1817
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Summary of the course of permanent fortification
scarp gallery taken from a French authority. In this enso counterforts, square in
plan, are built along the buck of tho counterscarp wall, leaving 8 foot between
them. Parallel to the counterscarp wall, and 4 feet in rear of the counterforts,
another ...
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Reports from Committees of the House of Commons: Repr. by ...
Completed in its Ditch, Sluices, Cunette, Aqueducts, Scarp and Counterscarp
Walls, Revetement, Retaining Wall of the Rampart, Ramps, Parapet, and Half of
its Casemates and- Magazines, together with the False Ports of its Countermines.
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTERSCARP»
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counterscarp is used in the context of the following news items.
Fort to undergo structural repairs
The $9.1 million is to include $3.5 million to repair the counterscarp walls on the east, west and north face of the fort, $1.8 million for the curtain ... «The Kingston Whig-Standard, Jun 15»
Evolution and Development of Mughal Garden
... clear and understandable transliteration of an archaic Iranian word, pairidaeza, which signified garden surrounded by a girdle counterscarp. «The Nation, Sep 14»
'Battle' scene at Mdina ditch
A spokesman explained the trees being transplanted to the other side of the counterscarp were being moved to “expose the scale and majesty ... «Times of Malta, May 12»
Works start on recreation area in Mdina ditch
The grounds today hold a significant number of citrus trees, which are to be transplanted to the side of the counterscarp so as to expose the ... «Times of Malta, Apr 12»
Stonehenge: Geological Feature Indicates the Site Was Constructed …
On the subject of the Bank and Counterscarp Bank (on the outer side of the Ditch) they have this to say: "There is very little available information ... «PR.com, Sep 08»
Geometries | Fort Tompkins
In the 19th-century fortification on the north coast of Staten Island, opposing walls, the scarp and counterscarp, are faced with granite and have ... «New York Times, May 08»
