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Caponier
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or house), in fortification, a work constructed in the ditch of a fort. Its fire (musketry, machine-guns, case shot, &c.) sweeps the bottom of the ditch and prevents an enemy from establishing himself in it. The term is used in a military sense as early as in the late 17th century. In various bastioned systems of fortification a caponier served merely as a covered means of access to outworks, the bastion trace providing for the defence of the ditch by fire from. the main parapet.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Caponier'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/caponier.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Caponier'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/caponier.html. 1910.
