Definitions: Glacis

How they were designed, built and protected armies and strategic areas.
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Definitions: Glacis

Post by pud » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:01 am

This is a gently sloping earthwork and it commences, usually, from the covert-way and stretches toward the countryside. It is built so that every part of it should be covered by fire.

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