ravelin

He had crossed the ravelin, running, the heat of the fire close on his right side, and the drop was huge.

The fight lasted half an hour, after which the Spaniards took the ravelin.

Only a few years ago men like these had tried to kill Ravelin's Queen.

Ahead was the ravelin's sloping face with the light bright above it and the guns were waiting.

The east ravelin of the castle was enlarged and used to house the court kitchens.

The survivors were behind the ravelin, digging into the dead, and the French mocked them.

Any man who climbed a ravelin would be swept off by carefully aimed cannon.

After about a year, the ravelin fell, and Bragodino surrendered, seeing further defense as useless.

The guns were quieter now, saving their anger for the fools who would come from behind the ravelin.

A ravelin was added at Landport where the London road entered the city.

It is a polygonal fort, with five bastions and a ravelin on the western side.

A bridge then connects it with the King Ravelin.

The main entry has its own ravelin.

Initially only the northeastern bastion contained a cavalier and ravelin.

The feature resembles a fortification, hence the name ravelin.

Ravelin is a multifunctional complex with, amongst others, a theatre, conference hall, restaurant and offices.

The moat was some 50 feet wide and there was a ravelin covering the front gate.

The fires still seethed, white hot and violent, and the only path was across the ravelin.

As long as the British stayed quiet, harmless behind the ravelin, the gunners let them be.

It originally included five bastions and cavaliers but no ravelin outworks.

The ravelin was twenty feet high, shaped like a diamond, and the only way to the new breach was to go round it.

The outer defences consist of two wet moats, a ravelin and a redan.

This battery was shaped like a ravelin as it was intended to divide any invading army.

The ravelin was sketched on the map; a masonry wedge, diamond shaped, that would break up an attack.

The ditch in front of the wall was huge, as wide as a parade ground, but filled with the squat, half-finished ravelin.