Definitions: Tensille

How they were designed, built and protected armies and strategic areas.
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Definitions: Tensille

Post by pud » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:08 pm

This is a low work constructed in a main ditch and it is found before (in front of) the curtain and between the flanks of a bastion. It serves to hide the entrance way to a postern.

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