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| Author: | pud [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Definitions: Half-Moon (Demilune) |
This is a crescent-shaped earthwork meant to protect the front of a curtain or of a bastion without flanks. By the time of the War of 1812 these structures were being referred to as a 'Ravelin'. |
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