A caponier is a type of defensive structure in a fortification. Fire from this point could cover the ditch beyond the curtain wall to deter any attempt...

approaches. The Caponier building in the ditch served as barrack accommodation for 24 men. With its iron window-shutters and rifle slots the Caponier also provided...

main body of the fort by a tunnel which passed under the ditch, or by a caponier, a gallery built across the floor of the ditch. Counterscarp: European...

facilities. Some of them played independent historical roles. The Kosyi Caponier ("Skew Caponier") became a prison for the political inmates in the 1900s–1920s...

long south-east facing loop-holed wall for musketry fire, together with a caponier projecting northwards to flank the fort's northern face (see plan). Although...

the fort. The north caponier is a full caponier because it points in two directions. The other five caponiers are demi-caponiers because they face in...

Instead of the open bastions at the Littlehampton fort, Shoreham had a caponier with a brick roof at each of the three angles of the walls. This meant...

remained dry. The ditch is ably protected by a grand caponier to the west with smaller demi-caponiers at the north, southwest and south salient angles. A...

removed gun QF 12-pounder gun at the fort The caponier at the foot of the cliffs The stairs leading to the caponier Eastbourne Redoubt Pevensey Castle Newhaven...

fort became very low indeed, surrounded outside the ditch covered by caponiers by a gently sloping open area so as to eliminate possible cover for enemy...