A flèche (Fr. for "arrow") is an outwork consisting of two converging faces with a parapet and an open gorge, forming an arrowhead shape facing the enemy...

Look up flèche in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flèche or Fleche may refer to: Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire Flèche (cycling), a team...

In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion...

bombardment, the French stormed the flèches again, some being eliminated with canister shot. Compans' infantry retook the left flèche while Francois Roch Ledru...

Flamboyant Flame palmette Flanking tower Flat roof Flèche (architecture) Flèche (fortification) Flèche faîtière Fleuron Float glass Floating floor Flood...

obtuse angle with a vertex toward the enemy is called a flèche (arrow in French). The Bagration flèches were three redans backwards in echelon. The Shevardino...

Outworks such as ravelins, lunettes (demilunes), flèches and caponiers to shield bastions and fortification curtains from direct battery were developed in...

assumed to be a jocular reference to the perceived similarity of the fortifications to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once...

attack. Flèche: an arrow shaped outwork, smaller than a ravelin or a lunette, with 2 faces with a parapet and an open gorge Fort Fortification Fortress...

fortification construction, an independent fieldwork, that is frequently used in the construction of temporary (not permanent) field fortifications....