In military architecture, a covertway or covered way (French: chemin couvert, Italian: strada coperta) is a path on top of the counterscarp of a fortification...

centuries). The elements are: a) glacis, b) banquette, c) covered way or covertway d) counterscarp, e) ditch (dry), f) cunette, g) scarp or escarp, h) faussebraye...

19th-century alterations. A covertway with a single place-of-arms runs along the ditch. A steep glacis was located outside the covertway, but this has been built...

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consisting of four counterguards along the land front, as well as a covertway and a glacis. The northern end of the peninsula, including Fort St. Elmo...

consisted of a fort with four bastions and a ravelin, surrounded by a ditch, covertway and faussebraye. Other proposals were made in 1715, this time by the knight...

structures by the British. The outworks are surrounded by a ditch, a covertway and a glacis. The enceinte facing the open sea is made up of the following...

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able to damage (the foundations of) the fortification's walls. Coupure Covertway Defensive fighting position; for example, a rifle pit, sangar or fox hole...

designed by a Spanish Engineer named Pietro Pardo. It had a cavalier, a covertway and a tenaille. A ravelin was hastily constructed months before the 1565...

showing a cross-section of the fortifications of Groenlo. From left to right: counterscarp, covertway, ditch, faussebraye and the main defensive wall....

Upload Photo Covertway - Fort Chambrai Fort Chambray 36°01′27″N 14°17′30″E / 36.024174°N 14.291731°E / 36.024174; 14.291731 (Covertway - Fort Chambrai)...

infantry assault on the city. After 20:00, a fierce assault began on the covertway when 6,000 French soldiers stormed the city. The fighting continued throughout...

the outworks of Nijmegen. The Anglo-Dutch infantry took up post in the covertway, while the cavalry took up a position on the glacis. For some hours, the...

are located at the gorge. The fort is further protected by a ditch, a covertway and a glacis. Fort Lupin was never attacked, and it never fired its guns...

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the Earl of Athlone. The same year he led the English storming of the covertway of Venlo, supported by Lottum's Prussian Troops which would later result...

by digging alternate ranks of wet and dry ditches. The dry ditches and covertways were cut down to within a few inches of the water table ... (if the besiegers)...

Photo Covertway of the main ditch Main ditch; Triq Ġirolamo Cassar 35°53′52″N 14°30′27″E / 35.897893°N 14.507450°E / 35.897893; 14.507450 (Covertway of...

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Photo Covertway - St Margherita Lines Triq il-Giblew tal-Fidda 35°52′59″N 14°31′32″E / 35.883031°N 14.525626°E / 35.883031; 14.525626 (Covertway - St...

number of meanings, but it generally refers to an enlarged area of the covertway designed as an assembly point for soldiers, or a square in the centre...

Covertway - Citadel from St. Michael Bastion to Lower Battery 36°02′45″N 14°14′24″E / 36.045821°N 14.240136°E / 36.045821; 14.240136 (Covertway -...

was further protected with the construction of outworks, including a covertway, two places-of-arms and a glacis. Mondion also made further plans to strengthen...

acting governor of Metz, the Marquis de Refuge, let his troops man the Covertway, and opened fire on the Dutch with his cannon. Grovestins therefore first...

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Greif Bastion Burg Bastion It is surrounded by a ditch, a counterscarp, a covertway and a glacis. Brandes, Annette; Thiele, Norbert, eds. (December 2006)...

crucial parts such as cavaliers, ravelins, the ditch, the glacis and the covertway had not yet been built. In the early 18th century, some efforts were made...

Olano. Today, all but one of these galleries have been preserved. The covertway way bordered all the moats and provided communication between the city...