Definitions: Casemate

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

Post by pud » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:13 pm

This is actually a vaulted chamber, very much like a celler. It is built into the Rampart and it is provided with embrasures, gun ports or loopholes for defensive purposes.

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