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The Battlefield of Verdun, as shown in The Sphere, 4 March 1916. The line indicating the Douaumont, right, under heavy French bombardment following its seizure on 25 February. The German advance shows Driant’s Bois des Caures, left, well inside captured territory and Fort picture also gives some idea of the difference in terrain between the right and left banks of…
Golubac consists of three main compounds guarded by 10 towers and 2 portcullises, all connected by fortress walls 2–3 meters thick. In front of the fortress, the forward wall (I) doubled as the outer wall of the moat, which connected to the Danube and was likely filled with water. A…
In 1534, a Polish military commander and politician named MikoĹ‚aj Sieniawski decided to build a massive fortress near Berezhany, western Ukraine. Sieniawski wanted to create a place that was impenetrable, so he selected a patch of marshy land that was located on a small island near the ZĹ‚ota Lipa River.…
The Zoo flak tower Berliners had been repeatedly told that theirs was the best-defended city in the world. And, for once, Nazi propagandists were telling the unglossed truth: Berlin’s air defences really were state-of-the-art. The centrepiece of the hugely impressive network of defences in the city was the three Berlin…
The walls of Nicosia (1567) are a typical example of Italian Renaissance military architecture that survives to this day. At the beginning of the Renaissance, fortifications had to be completely reconsidered as a result of developments in artillery. During the Middle Ages, well-stocked fortresses with a source of potable water…
One of the finest examples of European military architecture, Fort George holds a commanding position on the Moray Firth, ideally located to suppress the Highlands. Completed in 1769, the fort was built after the Jacobite risings to discourage further rebellion in the Highlanders, and has remained a military garrison ever…
Hadrian’s Wall; Chesters Bridge Abutment Despite the remaining fortifications that surrounded them, the Europeans of the Germanic West had difficulty reaching the level of defensive sophistication of the Roman Empire. Even with the extant physical reminders of the Roman fortified lines, especially Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, they declined to maintain…
The construction of FlaktĂĽrme (Flak towers) in major cities began in response to the first…
Features of an Atlantic Wall Bunker The bunker was primarily an instrument of defence. For…
Early Fortifications Although fortifications were constructed in Japan prior to the feudal period, frequent conflicts…
Regelbau M162a fire-control bunker for gun battery at Frederikshavn, Denmark, in the summer of 1945.…
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