The counterguard (German: Kontergarde, French: contre-garde) is an outwork in a bastioned fortification system that usually comprises only a low rampart...

strengthened with the construction of various outworks, consisting of four counterguards along the land front, as well as a covertway and a glacis. The northern...

for a counterguard to be constructed in front of them as additional defences. This 1823 counterguard which was originally named "Orange Counterguard" was...

behind constructing a counterguard, like the Montagu Counterguard in 1804, is that the enemy has to first capture the counterguard in order to take the...

As a result of O'Reily's reforms, the Ravelin of San Carlos and the counterguard of La Trinidad were built. Further east, a fort called El Abanico and...

air-raid shelter within Couvre Porte Counterguard. The museum is housed within the Couvre Porte, a 17th-century counterguard forming part of the fortifications...

ravelins and redoubts, bonnettes and lunettes, tenailles and tenaillons, counterguards and crownworks and hornworks and curvettes and faussebrayes and scarps...

surrounded by tenailles before the centres of the curtain walls and counterguards before the bastions. In front of the centre of each curtain face was...

fortifications of Valletta, with the main fortification (a bastion) to the left, the ditch in the centre, and the outwork (a counterguard) to the right...

Barricade Bastion Blockhouse Breastwork Canal Caponier Casemate Cavalier Counterguard Couvreface Coupure Covertway Crownwork Device Forts Entrenchment Flèche...