Illustrated glossary
- Arsenal
- Barracks
- Bastion
- Bastioned tower
- Battery
- Capital
- Caponier
- Casemate
- Cavalier
- Citadel
- Cofferdam
- Cordon
- Corps de garde or Guardroom
- Corps de place
- Counterguard or coverface
- Counterscarp
- Covert way
- Crown
- Cunette
- Curtain wall
- Dame
- Defilade or to cover
- Demi-lune or ravelin
- Ditch
- Echauguette or watchtower
- Embrasure
- Enceinte or urban walls
- Entrenched camps
- Face
- Fausse braie
- First system
- Flank
- Fort
- Fortress
- Glacis
- Gorge
- Guérite
- Hornwork
- Loophole or Murder hole
- Lunette
- Nid-de-pie
- Orgues
- Orillion
- Parade ground
- Parapet
- Pas de souris stairway
- Portcullis
- Postern
- Rampart
- Redoubt
- Reduit
- Second system
- Stronghold
- Tenaille
- Third system
- Three systems
- To flank
- Traverse
- Wall walk
Traverse
Thick wall or mound of earth built at an angle across the covered way or chemin de ronde (wall walk). These structures were blocked almost all the way across apart from a small passage on the chicane (alternate sides). The traverse protected the walkway from flanking fire.
Traverse: Thick wall or mound of earth built at an angle across the covered way or chemin de ronde (wall walk).
