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    The counterguard (German: Kontergarde, French: contre-garde) is an outwork in a bastioned fortification system that usually comprises only a low rampart...
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    strengthened with the construction of various outworks, consisting of four counterguards along the land front, as well as a covertway and a glacis. The northern...
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    for a counterguard to be constructed in front of them as additional defences. This 1823 counterguard which was originally named "Orange Counterguard" was...
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    behind constructing a counterguard, like the Montagu Counterguard in 1804, is that the enemy has to first capture the counterguard in order to take the...
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    crownwork encircling the entire land front. St. Dominic Counterguard – a casemated counterguard near the left extremity of the land front. It was heavily...
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    As a result of O'Reily's reforms, the Ravelin of San Carlos and the counterguard of La Trinidad were built. Further east, a fort called El Abanico and...
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    air-raid shelter within Couvre Porte Counterguard. The museum is housed within the Couvre Porte, a 17th-century counterguard forming part of the fortifications...
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    ditch, which contains the following outworks: San Salvatore Counterguard – a counterguard near San Savatore Bastion. Pietà Lunette – a pentagonal lunette...
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    surrounded by tenailles before the centres of the curtain walls and counterguards before the bastions. In front of the centre of each curtain face was...
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    landing ships: HMS Anzio, HMS Bastion, HMS Buttress, HMS Citadel, HMS Counterguard, HMS Evan Gibb, HMS Empire Cymric, HMS Empire Cedric, HMS Empire Celtic...
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    ravelins and redoubts, bonnettes and lunettes, tenailles and tenaillons, counterguards and crownworks and hornworks and curvettes and faussebrayes and scarps...
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    fortifications of Valletta, with the main fortification (a bastion) to the left, the ditch in the centre, and the outwork (a counterguard) to the right...
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    rooms and the NATO Command Centre, as well as the SS Peter and Paul Counterguard, the Saluting Battery, and the crypt of the former Garrison Chapel. Coastal...
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    run parallel to one another. Similar to the couvreface is the larger counterguard which, by contrast, was designed to enable the positioning of guns. Couvrefaces...
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    Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...
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    Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...
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    Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...
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    in the class (HM Ships Redoubt, Rampart, Citadel, Parapet, Bastion, Counterguard, Portcullis, Sallyport, and Buttress) served during the 1956 Suez Crisis...
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    Canal Chatham Counterguard Flêche Forbes' Barrier Glacis Grand Casemates Inundation King's Lines Lines of Contravallation Montagu Counterguard Prince's Lines...
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    Corunna Corycia Cosby Cossack Cotillion Cotswold Cottesmore Cotton Coucy Counterguard Countess of Carinthia Countess of Hopetoun Countess of Scarborough Courageous...
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    Canal Chatham Counterguard Flêche Forbes' Barrier Glacis Grand Casemates Inundation King's Lines Lines of Contravallation Montagu Counterguard Prince's Lines...
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    Anthony of Padua in Fort Manoel (2009) Chapel of St Roche on St Michael's Counterguard (2014) Wignacourt Arch (2015) Plans are also being made for reconstructing...
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  • Landing Ship Tank KD Sri Langkawi  UK 1 Acquired in 1965. Former HMS Counterguard in Royal Navy service. Scrapped. Mark 3 LCT Landing Ship Tank HMS Pelandok/HMS...
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    Malta Bank Ċentrali ta’ Malta Headquarters Binja Laparelli, St James’s Counterguard, Valletta Coordinates 35°53′44″N 14°30′35″E / 35.8955568°N 14.509722°E...
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    made by the British in the 19th century. Couvre Porte Counterguard – a pentagonal counterguard built to protect St. John Bastion. It was built during...
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    it over A large tenaille to prevent an enemy attack from the river A counterguard A levee with a system of sluice-gates to contain the nearby stream and...
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    Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...
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    Canal Chatham Counterguard Flêche Forbes' Barrier Glacis Grand Casemates Inundation King's Lines Lines of Contravallation Montagu Counterguard Prince's Lines...
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  • Caledonian Canal Chatham Counterguard, 1823 Flêche Forbes' Barrier Glacis Healy's Mortar Inundation King's Lines Montagu Counterguard Old Mole Ragged Staff...
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    remain largely intact to this day, and they include bastions, cavaliers, counterguards and a ditch. The ruined Fort Saint Elmo was rebuilt and integrated into...
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