Definitions: Bridge Head (La Tete du Pont)

How they were designed, built and protected armies and strategic areas.
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Definitions: Bridge Head (La Tete du Pont)

Post by pud » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:16 pm

This is a work that consists of one or more bastions or redans and it is constructed on a river bank and it is meant to cover a bridge in order to protect a retiring army when they are crossing the river. It can also be used to "check" an enemy when pressing upon it.

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