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A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications such as curtain walls with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. [1]
The Great Wall was a series of fortifications built across the historical northern borders of China. Large tempered earth (i.e. rammed earth) walls were built in ancient China since the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 –1050 BC); the capital at ancient Ao had enormous walls built in this fashion (see siege for more info).
A battlement, in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences. [1]
The walls are built of a ditch and dike structure, the ditch dug to form an inner moat with the excavated earth used to form the exterior rampart. [citation needed] The Benin Walls were ravaged by the British in 1897. Scattered pieces of the walls remain in Edo, with material being used by the locals for building purposes.
A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, [1] most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. [2]
Stronghold 3 is a 2011 real-time strategy game, featuring more realistic shadows, landscapes, units, buildings, day/night cycle, and weather, based on a new 3D game engine, allowing the player to construct walls and buildings at non-parallel angles. It is a direct sequel to Stronghold and Stronghold 2.
Stronghold, Edward Sedgewick, a character in the comic book series Harbinger "Stronghold", an episode of Stargate SG-1; Stronghold, a 1951 movie starring Veronica Lake; Stronghold (pet medicine) or Selamectin, a parasiticide and anthelmintic for cats and dogs; HMS Stronghold, a Royal Navy S-class destroyer launched in 1919 and sunk in 1942
Some of the remaining elements of the fortress are the Bock promontory, [18] Vauban towers, the "Three Towers" (one of the old gates), [19] Fort Thüngen, the towers on the Rham plateau, [20] the Wenceslas Wall, [21] the old cavalry barracks in Pfaffenthal, [22] the Holy Ghost citadel, the casemates of the Bock and the Pétrusse, [23] [24] the ...