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Device Forts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Short and squat, with normally 3 tiers of long-distance offensive armament and a couple of tiers of defensive armament. |
 | | The bays had wide splays for easy traverse of the guns, walls were thick and curved to deflect shot, and the medieval portcullises, murderholes and drawbridges were perpetuated. |
 | | Later ones in the chain, however, took into account more recent developments and were of a more angular form, with triangular bastions,as at Yarmouth. |
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