Definitions: Berm

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

Post by pud » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:14 am

This is a very narrow place caught between the parapet and the ditch and it is used to prevent the earth from rolling into the ditch on the fortifications side. (Opposing the Berm, on the enemy's side, is an area called the Covered-Way)

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