hornwork
Sign in to savethumb|left|Feature 'f' is a hornwork thumb|right|Hornwork thumb|The Weber Church of [[Zittau inside a hornwork]] alt=Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811.|thumb|Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811. A hornwork is an element of the Italian bastion system of fortification. Its face is flanked with a pair of half-bastions. It is distinguished from a crownwork, because crownworks contain full bastions at their centers. They are both outworks.
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Vinony's link graph records 294 inbound references to hornwork, and connects out to watchtower, star fort and kasbah.
It is catalogued under the topic Fortifications.
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- outwork
- Part of
- fortification
- Image
- Hoornwerk.png
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Hornwork
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thumb|left|Feature 'f' is a hornwork thumb|right|Hornwork thumb|The Weber Church of [[Zittau inside a hornwork]] alt=Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811.|thumb|Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811. A hornwork is an element of the Italian bastion system of fortification. Its face is flanked with a pair of half-bastions. It is distinguished from a crownwork, because crownworks contain full bastions at their centers. They are both outworks.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hornwork” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.