counterscarp In A Sentence

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• The four-sided fort is surrounded by a ditch and a counterscarp.
• There is a bank on the counterscarp which may have continued on the north, where a road runs now, and along the steep east side.
• Most of the perimeter is a double rampart, but the flatter eastern side has an extra counterscarp rampart with well-defined double ditches.
• By early August, the besiegers had sapped within 30 paces of the counterscarp palisade.
• The Irish drove the besiegers back through the breach, over the counterscarp, back to their trenches, then back to their camp, for a complete victory after a battle of four hours.
• They had incurred an additional loss of 13,000 men without substantial gain, except a lodgment on the counterscarp of Sung-Shu.
• The moat was rebuilt and a counterscarp galley was built round the edge.
• At 11 : 00 PM on 6 August a mine blew a gap in the counterscarp.
• It has been cut through living rock to the E of the entrance, and there are traces of a counterscarp bank on the NW.
• From all sides, except the rear, the fort was surrounded by a counterscarp wall and glacis behind it.
• Boa Island features a counterscarp Lustymore stone figure was moved here in 1939 from the nearby island of that name.
• The ditches were defended in enfilade by 57mm guns in casemates resembling counterscarp batteries, firing at shot traps at the other end of the ditch.
• The East Ditch has a masonry-faced counterscarp and scarp, with a further outer ditch in the form of a large cutting.
• They did not, however, get possession of the whole of the counterscarp galleries before about the middle of November.
• Just like the counterscarp, the trapezoidal central platform narrows from the south and widens from east to west.
• The next day the Spaniards consolidated their new positions and they turned the newly captured guns upon the main counterscarp of the town.