A flèche (Fr. for "arrow") is an outwork consisting of two converging faces with a parapet and an open gorge, forming an arrowhead shape facing the enemy...

Look up flèche in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flèche or Fleche may refer to: Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire Flèche (cycling), a team...

In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion...

bombardment, the French stormed the flèches again, some being eliminated with canister shot. Compans' infantry retook the left flèche while Francois Roch Ledru...

Flamboyant Flame palmette Flanking tower Flat roof Flèche (architecture) Flèche (fortification) Flèche faîtière Fleuron Float glass Floating floor Flood...

obtuse angle with a vertex toward the enemy is called a flèche (arrow in French). The Bagration flèches were three redans backwards in echelon. The Shevardino...

Outworks such as ravelins, lunettes (demilunes), flèches and caponiers to shield bastions and fortification curtains from direct battery were developed in...

assumed to be a jocular reference to the perceived similarity of the fortifications to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once...

fortification construction, an independent fieldwork, that is frequently used in the construction of temporary (not permanent) field fortifications....

attack. Flèche: an arrow shaped outwork, smaller than a ravelin or a lunette, with 2 faces with a parapet and an open gorge Fort Fortification Fortress...

position, but the Redoubt remained manned, Kutuzov stating that the fortification was manned simply to delay the advance of the French forces. Historian...

fortifications housed around 681 guns mounted in 110 batteries and positions, guarding all land and sea approaches to Gibraltar. The fortifications continued...

part of this space, relative to the closing device, door or window. In fortification this refers to the outward splay of a window or of an arrowslit on the...

The Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes is a Gothic royal chapel within the fortifications of the Château de Vincennes on the east edge of Paris, France. It was...

the charge. With the second attempt he managed to take the southernmost flèche at 7 am. But in response Bagration ordered Raevsky and his 7th Corps once...

The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant...

a small fleet consisting in two galleys, a barque, and a French saëte ("flèche" or "arrow") requisitioned in Algiers. Peralta had sent messages to Spain...

emir Timur. The Turco-Mongols blockaded the harbour and attacked the fortifications with stone-throwing siege engines, while the defenders, numbering only...

prosecutor in Loudun. According to Monsieur des Niau, Counsellor at la Flèche, Grandier had aroused the hostility of a number of husbands and fathers...

Schilte (La Flèche) et Gérard Morteveille (Sainte-Suzanne), 1987–1988. Marquis de Beauchêne in "Sainte-Suzanne, son histoire et ses fortifications" de Robert...

moat. There has been debate as to whether there was an earlier English fortification on the site, but whilst there is archaeological evidence of earlier...

landmarks, carried out for him by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. He restored the flèche, or spire, of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, which had been partially...

This is a list of fortifications of Gibraltar. Bombproof Barracks Buena Vista Barracks Defensible Barracks Grand Casemates Lathbury Barracks Retrenched...

sculpture. Amiens Cathedral has a flèche. The most famous example was that of Notre-Dame de Paris. The original flèche of Notre-Dame was built on the crossing...

member of the French Academy of Sciences. Joseph Sauveur was born in La Flèche, the son of a provincial notary. Despite a hearing and speech impairment...

v t e Fortifications Ancient Abatis Acropolis Agger Broch Burgus Castellum Castra Castros Circular rampart City gate Crannog Ditch Defensive wall Dun Faussebraye...

Ceinture, was a circular railway built as a means to supply the city's fortification walls, and as a means of transporting merchandise and passengers between...

with a rectangular ground plan, decorated with a crow-stepped gable and a flèche with a copper roof and a striking turret clock. In 1620, Wolin Castle was...

Bailleul (or Balliol) House of Baskerville House of Beaugency (or de La Flèche) House of Beauchamp House of Beaumont House of Bellêmeo House of Bigod House...

building, or sometimes simply to maintain the harmony of the design. The flèche or spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, which had been constructed in about 1250...