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  2. Medieval fortification - Wikipedia

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    Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in Europe, roughly from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance. During this millennium, fortifications changed warfare, and in turn were modified to suit new tactics, weapons and siege techniques.

  3. Ostrog (fortress) - Wikipedia

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    Ostrog (Russian: острог, IPA: [ɐˈstrok]) is a Russian term for a small fort, typically wooden and often non-permanently staffed. Ostrogs were encircled by 4–6 metres high palisade walls made from sharpened trunks. The name derives from the Russian word строгать (strogat'), "to shave the wood". Ostrogs were smaller and ...

  4. Blockhouse - Wikipedia

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    Blockhouse. Completed in 1750, Fort Edward in Nova Scotia, Canada is the oldest remaining military blockhouse in North America. Reconstructed European wooden keep at Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou, France, has a strong resemblance to a North American western frontier log blockhouse. A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or ...

  5. Polygonal fort - Wikipedia

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    Polygonal fort. An 1868 plan of Fort I of the ring fortress at Magdeburg, typical of mid-19th century polygonal forts. A polygonal fort is a type of fortification originating in France in the late 18th century and fully developed in Germany in the first half of the 19th century. Unlike earlier forts, polygonal forts had no bastions, which had ...

  6. Vindolanda - Wikipedia

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    The earliest Roman forts at Vindolanda were built of wood and turf. [3] The remains are now buried as much as 13 ft (4 m) deep in the anoxic waterlogged soil. There are five timber forts, built (and demolished) one after the other. The first, a small fort, was probably built by the 1st Cohort of Tungrians about 85 AD.

  7. Fort Ticonderoga - Wikipedia

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    Fort Ticonderoga (/ taɪkɒndəˈroʊɡə /), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. It was constructed between October 1755 and 1757 by French-Canadian military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière during ...

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