10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENOUILLERE»
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The "genouillere" (4' 3" high, about) has a length of 12 or 14 feet, and the stone or
brick wall reaches (this is tine of all English batteries I have seen) to the sole, of
the embrasure. From extremities of the genouillere the revetment-walls flare ...
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, 1872
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Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of ...
... but to obtain them requires to have the merlons and indeed the whole line of
parapet above the height of the genouillere exposed to destruction by the
besieger's fire, which is, in fact, one of the regular processes in a siege, and thus
not only ...
Great Britain. Corps of Royal Engineers, 1870
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Treatise on Fortification, Or, Lectures Delivered to ...
The embrasures have the shape of loopholes, and Fio. ?05. the genouillere
should be made as high as possible to protect the men from any shots that may
enter through the embrasure. (379). General Haxo, a French officer, has
proposed ...
Auguste Frédéric Lendy, 1862
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Military and political hints
A. On the first is placed a second, and others successively as high as the
genouillere. Care must be taken to fasten the ends of the saucissons to one
another, and, as fast as they are placed, to secure them with the earth of the
breast-work ...
Irenée Amelot de Lacroix, France. Armée. Artillerie, 1808
5
Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from ...
The garrison gun carriage consists of two brackets connected by transoms and
bolts to axle-trees, and supported on iron trucks. The carriages are raised to such
a height as to enable them to fire over a 2' 3" genouillere with a depression of 5°.
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Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of ...
... be generally supposed ; for it is not only the embrasures, but to obtain them
requires to have the merlons and indeed the whole line of parapet above the
height of the genouillere exposed to destruction by the besieger-s fire, which is,
in fact, ...
Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers, Sir Henry James, Griffith George Lewis, 1870
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The Principles of Fortification ... Fourth edition, with ...
What is the genouillere .9 It is the interior elevation of the para-' pet which
remains above the platform, after having made the opening _of the embrasure; it
covers the lower 'part of ' E the I the carriage. The height of the genouillere from
the ...
8
Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: The fourteenth century
They may be divided into three parts : the chausson with its knee-piece (or
genouillere), the greaves, and the solleret or armed shoe. The knee-boss6
appears to have formed part of the chausson ; and the manner in which, attached
to a ...
9
A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French ...
Genouillere, f. pulley piece, (v. armes anciennes) ; — de batterie, genouillere,
that part of the parapet reaching from the platform to the sill of the embrasure;
height of the parapet above the banquette in a barbette battery, (v. hauteur i,
appui.) ...
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The Field Engineer: Or, Instructions Upon Every Branch of ...
... of the embrasures : because, as it is only intended that the shot shall form a
curve when they come out of the mouths of the cannon, they are cut from the
outward edge of the superior talus of the parapet down to the genouillere,
genouillere, ...
Johann Gottleib Tielke, 1789
