Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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Page 55
... frontier barriers ( limites ) may not have been quite so simple . Whether the Romans got the idea from seeing the frontier ditches some German tribes had dug around the borders of their territory is not clear , but the first limes was ...
... frontier barriers ( limites ) may not have been quite so simple . Whether the Romans got the idea from seeing the frontier ditches some German tribes had dug around the borders of their territory is not clear , but the first limes was ...
Page 142
... frontier . 73 Shargai Fort , a British outpost in the Khyber Pass on the North - West Frontier of India . Note that its plan is polygonal , in keeping with the forts built in Europe and America in the nineteenth century . The Industrial ...
... frontier . 73 Shargai Fort , a British outpost in the Khyber Pass on the North - West Frontier of India . Note that its plan is polygonal , in keeping with the forts built in Europe and America in the nineteenth century . The Industrial ...
Page 166
... frontier was prepared for demolition ; every bridge on the frontier itself covered by fire from a fortified house . All that interlocking defence in depth was controlled from the one ouvrage , itself within 75- mm range of its ...
... frontier was prepared for demolition ; every bridge on the frontier itself covered by fire from a fortified house . All that interlocking defence in depth was controlled from the one ouvrage , itself within 75- mm range of its ...
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