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This is a tunnel that serves as a means of access to the ditch or to the outer works.

This is a wider part of the covert-way and it is usually near or nearer to the body of works (at the re-entering angles) in order to accommodate the concentration of light and or mobile artillery and artillery pieces.

This is typically a "falling" gate or door and it is hung like a harrow above the gate.

Singularly, a Palisade is a strong and pointed wooden stake. When many of them are fixed together and put deep into the ground and in close proximity they created defensive work. They're often placed parallel to the covered way on the glacis and also found in the ditch and ramparts.

This is any detached or advanced work which forms part of the defence of any particular place.

This is a reinforced part of a bastion at its shoulder (where the face and the flank of the bastion meet) and it serves to cover the flank.

This is a structure that is found projecting from a high work or tower and it is usually protected by a stone parapet in which there are openings in order to drop materials, especially combustible materials, onto the advancing enemy. Very few fortifications in Canada have such structures. A good exa...

I've had this book with me as my 'bible' to War of 1812 details since 1984. Mr. Auchinleck researched what has now been put into booklet format [the details] over a span of approximately 4 years. What I like best is, that although he was pro-British/Canadian, and lived in Canada for some time during...

Source: A History Of The War between Great Britain and the United States of America During The Years 1812, 1813 & 1814. G. Auchinleck. Arms and Armour Press and Pendragon House, Great Britain, 1972. p.p. 392-394. *(originally published in parts by The Toronto Globe between 1853 and 1855). "...

Source: A History Of The War between Great Britain and the United States of America During The Years 1812, 1813 & 1814. G. Auchinleck. Arms and Armour Press and Pendragon House, Great Britain, 1972. p.p. 391-392. *(originally published in parts by The Toronto Globe between 1853 and 1855). "...

Source: A History Of The War between Great Britain and the United States of America During The Years 1812, 1813 & 1814. G. Auchinleck. Arms and Armour Press and Pendragon House, Great Britain, 1972. p.p. 390-391. *(originally published in parts by The Toronto Globe between 1853 and 1855). “ In...

Source: A History Of The War between Great Britain and the United States of America During The Years 1812, 1813 & 1814. G. Auchinleck. Arms and Armour Press and Pendragon House, Great Britain, 1972. p.p. 387-390. *(originally published in parts by The Toronto Globe between 1853 and 1855). "...

This was a steep bank or wall immediately below the Rampart. It opposed the Counterscarp.

This was a well constructed, and heavily constructed, building that was normally made of stone or of brick and in it would be stored gunpowder, armament, ammunition and even provisions. Powder Magazines were required to be a bombproof shelter.

This was a narrow vertical opening that was typically wider on the inside than on the outside. This enabled the soldier to vary his aim from one side to the other while at the same time offering him a marginal amount of protection from the enemy's fire. Loopholes are typically found in stone wall as...