A crownwork outside a bastionFeature 'l' is a crownwork.[1]
A crownwork is an element of the trace italienne system of fortification and is effectively an expanded hornwork (a type of outwork). It consists of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.[2]
The crownwork was used to extend the fortified area in a particular direction, often in order to defend a bridge, prevent the enemy occupying an area of high ground, or simply strengthen the overall fortifications in the expected direction of attack.[3]
A crownwork is an element of the trace italienne system of fortification and is effectively an expanded hornwork (a type of outwork). It consists of a...
flanked with a pair of half-bastions. It is distinguished from a crownwork, because crownworks contain full bastions at their centers. They are both outworks...
tenaille, or re-entry angle. Their chief use is before a hornwork or crownwork. Castillo de San Marcos (completed 1695), Florida. Four-bastion fortress...
From 1688 to 1690, an advanced line of defence was added called the Crownwork. Shortly afterwards, a new series of ramparts were built around it. After...
referred to as a type of outwork or 'advanced outwork'. The hornwork and crownwork are subtypes of outworks. List of established military terms A Dictionary...
The Kronverk (Russian: Кронверк, from the German word for "crownwork") is a ground fortification for the Sts. Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg...
Muravyov-Apostol, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin and Kondraty Ryleyev on a crownwork of the Peter and Paul Fortress on 25 July 1826, and presumably interred...
It is oriented southwest to northeast so that it would align with the Crownwork Ehrensvärd defense front located to the southwest of the church. Before...
main wall. Further structures, such as ravelins, tenailles, hornworks or crownworks, and even detached forts could be added to create complex outer works...
featuring five wooden and earthen bastions, two additional ravelins, crownworks along the bastions not pointing towards the rivers, and a smaller accompanying...
Advance fortifications were placed on the heights around the city: the crownwork on Niedergrünewald, the hornwork on Obergrünewald, the "Corniche de Verlorenkost"...
complex fortification in the Western Hemisphere. It included a tenaille and crownwork, a complex outer work on the southern (landward) side, designed to break...
and various outworks, including several ravelins, three hornworks and a crownwork. The Fort of St. Demetrius, consisting of a small bastion and two demi-bastions...
further protected by the following outworks: a faussebraye in the form of a crownwork encircling the entire land front. St. Dominic Counterguard – a casemated...
became ingénieur en chef or chief engineer at Metz, constructing double crownworks at Bellecroix, Fort Moselle and Yutz, which he claimed to be adaptations...
demi-bastions and an outer crownwork with one full bastion and two demi-bastions is located near St. Francis Ravelin. The crownwork was protected by a musketry...
eight ravelins. On the Don side, the fortress defended by a bastion with crownworks. Below the bastion, the precipitous shore was fortified with two redoubts...
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