 | A sconce is a small protective fortification, such as an earthwork, often placed on a mound as a defensive work for artillery. It was used primarily in... 3 KB (267 words) - 15:10, 17 February 2023 |
up sconce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sconce may refer to: Sconce (fortification), a military fortification Sconce (light fixture) Sconcing, imposing... 513 bytes (96 words) - 20:16, 2 February 2024 |
 | 19th-century Dutch sconce fortification established over a hill in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Around the fortification, a new settlement grew... 5 KB (563 words) - 12:39, 1 December 2023 |
 | Schanze (category Fortifications by type) from which he commanded Operation Barbarossa. Baroque Schanzen Sconce (fortification) Wolfsschanze Rüstow: Militärisches Handwörterbuch. 1859, s.v. Schanze... 5 KB (497 words) - 16:47, 29 December 2023 |
 | Sconce and Devon Park is a park in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. It is the location of Queen's sconce, an earthwork fortification that was built in... 5 KB (570 words) - 08:49, 12 August 2023 |
refer to: A Buttress A defensive fortification, such as constructed by a besieging force, see Sconce (fortification) This disambiguation page lists articles... 191 bytes (58 words) - 03:53, 28 December 2019 |
 | Serbian rebels made a sconce in the form of a square, which measured 300 x 280 m. The rebel leader Karađorđe remained in the fortifications to keep the morale... 9 KB (909 words) - 08:24, 23 April 2024 |
 | side of the water, depicted as 'Hoboker Schans', translated as 'Sconce (fortification) of Hoboken',note that the map is upside down (top of map is the... 12 KB (1,006 words) - 10:10, 11 April 2024 |
 | Olaf Ryes Gade – Street in Odense, Denmark. Olaf Ryes Skanser - Sconce (fortification) at Helgenæs, Denmark. The first ever world record from first ever... 6 KB (450 words) - 06:54, 16 March 2024 |
 | Stockholm's permanent defence (section Fortification works on land and along the coast in the 19th century) century, the council of war Erik Dahlbergh was the prominent fortification architect. Many sconces were modernized or newly built along the Swedish Baltic... 57 KB (7,033 words) - 14:53, 7 March 2024 |
 | preference to the more generic Trutzburg. Coercion castle Schanze Sconce (fortification) Hill, Rosalind (1962). The Deeds of the Franks and the Other Pilgrims... 12 KB (1,619 words) - 00:35, 5 June 2023 |
 | The fortifications of Frankfurt were a system of military defences of the German city of Frankfurt am Main which existed from the Middle Ages into the... 68 KB (9,369 words) - 12:46, 14 January 2023 |
 | forms part of the municipality of Oldambt. Nieuweschans means "new fortification (sconce)". In 2009, the word Bad ("spa") was prefixed to the name of the... 11 KB (813 words) - 18:22, 8 December 2023 |
 | Worcester Castle was a Norman fortification built between 1068 and 1069 in Worcester, England by Urse d'Abetot on behalf of William the Conqueror. The... 19 KB (2,432 words) - 12:49, 20 March 2024 |
Fort Victoria, Isle of Wight (redirect from Sconce Point) become part of Fort Victoria Country Park. Fort Victoria is situated on Sconce Point west of Yarmouth. Its position overlooks the whole of the Needles... 8 KB (720 words) - 07:56, 24 March 2024 |
 | Hirsovo fortifications; the Russians opened fire from the fortress and the Turks moved back; then they headed for the sconce. Repulsed by the sconce, they... 5 KB (259 words) - 17:36, 27 January 2024 |
 | Vestingmuseum Oudeschans (category Fortifications in the Netherlands) near the Dutch–German border. The Bellingwolderschans (Sconce of Bellingwolde) was a fortification created in 1593 by William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg... 8 KB (541 words) - 15:09, 14 December 2023 |
 | Pillbox (military) (redirect from Pillbox (fortification)) 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... 11 KB (1,092 words) - 07:44, 7 March 2024 |
Scarp: the side of a ditch in front of a fortification facing away from it. Sconce: a small protective fortification, such as an earthwork, often placed on... 35 KB (4,263 words) - 06:27, 19 April 2024 |
 | The fortification was initially named Bellingwolderschans, meaning Sconce of Bellingwolde, in 1593. It was renamed Oudeschans, meaning Old Sconce, after... 7 KB (490 words) - 18:41, 9 April 2022 |
 | Winschoterzijl (category Fortifications in the Netherlands) to 30 feet as the Nieuwediep (now: Winschoterdiep). In 1628, a sconce (fortification) was constructed at Winschoterzijl to protect the Province of Groningen... 9 KB (601 words) - 21:12, 13 March 2022 |
 | 100; 14.767 Rotstein (Upper Sorbian: Hrodźišćo, meaning "hillfort" or "sconce") is a mountain ridge and its highest mountain in Görlitz district, Saxony... 2 KB (119 words) - 06:36, 22 April 2022 |
 | Karlsvärd Fortress (category Coastal fortifications) Quartermaster general Johan Wärnschiöldh which included a pentagonal bastion sconce with lower walls and counterscarp ditches, a drawing, which after some modifications... 11 KB (1,182 words) - 07:35, 26 December 2023 |
 | Skansen Kronan (category 17th-century fortifications) Skansen Kronan ("the Crown Sconce") is a redoubt on the hill Risåsberget, in the Haga district of Gothenburg, Sweden. The fortress and its twin, Skansen... 6 KB (449 words) - 15:48, 12 February 2024 |
 | for the sconce erected by Albrecht von Wallenstein on the site in 1627 when he occupied Aarhus during the Thirty Years' War. The fortification was used... 6 KB (553 words) - 18:13, 9 January 2024 |
 | The Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest (German: Barocke Verteidigungsanlagen im Schwarzwald), also called Baroque Schanzen (Barockschanzen) or... 11 KB (1,344 words) - 18:56, 1 January 2023 |
 | 1374, and lost completely in the St. Elizabeth's flood of 1404. In 1587, a sconce was constructed by the Spanish troops, and conquered by Maurice, Prince... 6 KB (342 words) - 00:52, 5 June 2022 |
 | Spanish troops, and consists of a wall with bastions with a sconce on either side. The fortification was built by Maurice, Prince of Orange to control the Zwin... 6 KB (423 words) - 23:53, 24 January 2024 |
Eighty Years' War. York later betrayed the Earl by turning over the Zutphen sconce to the enemy and accepting an offer to command lancers in Spanish service... 65 KB (715 words) - 13:08, 29 March 2024 |
 | Groningen since medieval times. In 1580, a square sconce and a church were built in Delfzijl. Fortification was expanded with six bastions in 1591. Also In... 28 KB (3,070 words) - 21:01, 4 December 2023 |