Definitions: Magazine

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

Post by pud » Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:10 pm

This was a well constructed, and heavily constructed, building that was normally made of stone or of brick and in it would be stored gunpowder, armament, ammunition and even provisions. Powder Magazines were required to be a bombproof shelter.

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