counterscarps

Behind him came troops of matchlock-men, who picked off every one of our men who showed their noses above the ramparts: and a great host of blackamoors with scaling-ladders, bundles to fill the ditch, fascines, gabions, culverins, demilunes, counterscarps, and all the other appurtenances of offensive war.

Burlesques 2006

These miniature pavements simulated upon the marble table the subjugation of the most complicated of barricades, with all sorts of bastions, redans, and counterscarps.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

-- A portable fortification, able to contain five hundred fighting men, and yet, in six hours 'time, may be set up and made cannon proof, upon the side of a river or pass, with cannon mounted upon it, and as complete as a regular fortification, with halfmoons and counterscarps.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

A short distance from the river, on the left of the trail, is a tabular bluff of most extraordinary formation, being the exact and accurately outlined figure of a large fortification, with escarpments, counterscarps, glacis, and all details, perfectly delineated.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

Another line is stationed on the parapet overhead, and a third line is posted across the moat on the counterscarps opposite the place of confinement.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

Lunettes, redoubts, and counterscarps all made of rock and stone.

Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses 1902

Victoria, which occupy two points of land on the other side of the harbor of the Marse, together with the suburbs of Floriana and Burmola, complete the town; encircled by bastions, ramparts, counterscarps, forts, and fortifications, to an extent which renders siege impossible!

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

Your trenches, zigzags, counterscarps, and ravelins may be all very well, and a very sure system of attack in the long run; but upon my soul they are almost as slow in maturing as those of Uncle Toby himself.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

These miniature pavements simulated upon the marble table the subjugation of the most complicated of barricades, with all sorts of bastions, redans, and counterscarps.

A Romance of Youth — Complete Fran��ois Copp��e 1875

Virginia, forthwith Butler, from Fortress Monroe, hurls a forlorn hope against the counterscarps of Big Bethel, forthwith the tented villages disappear, like snow flakes, from the surrounding fields of the

Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln 1865