Definitions: Half-Moon (Demilune)

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Definitions: Half-Moon (Demilune)

Post by pud » Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:00 pm

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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