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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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.
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