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covered ways (fortification elements)


Identification code: 300100143




Alternative term/s

  • chemins couvert
  • covered way
  • covered-ways
  • covert ways
  • covert-way
  • covert-ways
  • covertway
  • ways, covered
  • ways, covert

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Scope note:

Corridors running along the tops of counterscarps and protected by embankments whose outer slopes form glacis. Continuous path around a fortress, covered by an additional rampart such as a counterscarp or a glacis.

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