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...

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...

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...

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...

the lower part of the main wall. Further structures, such as ravelins, tenailles, hornworks or crownworks, and even detached forts could be added to create...

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

reduced, and beyond the ditch, additional outworks such as ravelins and tenailles were added to protect the curtain walls from direct cannonading. Bawn...