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Preferred term

Caponiers  

Definition

  • Covered shelters in the walls of a fortification, or across its ditches, to assure safe access to the outworks or to provide a safe place of flanking fire

Notation

  • 117728

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-NJBVSL7T-3

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