A tenaille (archaic tenalia) is an advanced defensive-work, in front of the main defences of a fortress, which takes its name from resemblance to the lip...

Théodore Tenaille-Saligny (22 February 1830 – 24 March 1889) was a French lawyer, civil servant and politician. He came from a prosperous family, was a...

bastioned land front and its outworks, an enceinte facing the sea, and a tenaille trace facing Rinella Bay of the Grand Harbour. The land front consists...

re-entering angle at the point. It was sometimes also called bastion with a tenaille. Such bastions were used, when without such a structure, the angle would...

the outward works ; such as from the higher flank to the lower, to the tenailles, or the communication from the middle of the curtain to the ravelin. When...

Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle (12 Oct. 1801 – 12 October 1859 ) was a French writer and playwright. He published his novels under the pseudonym Ernest...

Achille Tenaille de Vaulabelle (28 October 1799 – 27 March 1879) was a French journalist and politician. The family of Tenaille de Vaulabelle originated...

Queens". New Internationalist. 1 April 1981. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Tenaille, Frank (2002). Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African...

defended his design in a published Apologia. In fact, with its double tenaille, numerous embrasures in the bastions and high walls surrounded by a moat...

the most complex fortification in the Western Hemisphere. It included a tenaille and crownwork, a complex outer work on the southern (landward) side, designed...