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used in fortifications. Attackers (if they have not bridged the ditch) must descend the counterscarp and ascend the scarp. In permanent fortifications the scarp and counterscarp may be encased in stone. In less permanent fortifications, the counterscarp may be lined with paling fence set at an
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were built into the counterscarp, but they were more commonly designed for infantry weapons only. The galleries were usually connected to the main body of the fort by a tunnel which passed under the ditch, or by a
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from where the defenders could fire on attackers that managed to climb down into the ditch, while being protected from cannon fire themselves.
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These are tunnels or "galleries" that have been built behind the counterscarp wall inside the moat or ditch. Each gallery is pierced with
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A Dictionary of Military Architecture Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century: Counterscarp
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angle so as to give no cover to the attackers but to make advancing and retreating more difficult.
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A Course of Military Instruction Originally Composed for the Use of the Royal Engineers: Volume 3
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The term "scarp" is from the same origin as a "scarp slope", the leading edge of
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Counterscarp: European fortress wall - Art - Britannica Concise: diagram
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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From Duffy's Hibernian Magazine, Vol. III, No. 14, August 1861
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Scarp (fortification)

polygonal fort
Fort Napoleon, Ostend
caponier
ditch
moat
coupure
forlorn hope

Southsea Castle
Portsmouth
loopholes
musketry
casemated
artillery batteries
caponier
Counterscarp: European fortress wall - Art - Britannica Concise: diagram
A Dictionary of Military Architecture Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century: Counterscarp
Counterscarp Gallery
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898: Counterscarp
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Counterscarp
Encyclopædia Britannica
Historic Resource Study, (chapter 4): Jackson's line at Rodriguez Canal
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Wayback Machine
Clonmel: Its Monastery, and Siege by Cromwell
escarpment

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