A few minutes' walk led us to the fort, which is an irregular pentagon, with the base line or curtain face inlands, and the other faces casemated and bearing on the approaches.
This area is surrounded by casemated walls, which are in fact huge bomb-proof buildings, structures of stone with heavy arches of brick to support the great mass of earth which is required to protect them from shells thrown from mortars.
Two half redoubts with ditches more than three yards deep cut perpendicularly in the solid rock, casemated traverses and bomb-proof blockhouses in the gorge, afforded protection to the defenders.
He was immediately followed by the trench guard, but only a few of the French were surprised in the casemated traverses.
Half of the mantleted embrasures had been shattered, the expense powder magazines had been blown up, and a number of casemated traverses pierced.
The casemated gun galleries, which surround the parade ground on four sides and give to Fort Pulaski the atmosphere of a cloistered monastery, contain fine examples of brick masonry.
During the Civil War, when a large number of troops was stationed at Fort Pulaski, most of the enlisted men were quartered in the casemated gun galleries or in tents.
The polygonal system in fortification implies straight or slightly broken exterior sides, flanked by casemated caponiers.
These were developed from external buttresses, and equally with the casemated flanking towers of Durer contained the germs of the idea of "polygonal" defence.
It will be noticed that while the large casemated caponier at Posen breaks the enceinte and flanks it both without and within, at Antwerp the caponier is detached--a much sounder arrangement--and flanks the front only.
Flanks retired, casemated or open, or sometimes in several tiers were proposed in infinite variety.
At the salient of the bastion there is a mortar battery under the rampart, and a casemated traverse for howitzers upon the terreplein.
On the most dangerous side where the ships of the enemy can approach the land, there is on the counterscarp, a casemated coast-battery protected by the fire of heavy guns on the rampart.
From the left wing a line runs en cremaillere, beside which, at an entering angle, a casematedmagazine is placed near a small fort that defends the harbour.
He raised his covered-ways so as to conceal all his masonry, and casemated a great portion of his enceinte.
The walls of the casemated works were so thin as to be very soon battered down.
For two successive years did the mighty armaments of France and England threaten; but they were overawed by the frowning array of 'casemated castles' which presented itself, and declined the contest.
Hence the necessity of putting them tier above tier, which involves, of course, the casemated structure.
It is casemated in part, though but few of these embrasures were armed,--its chief force being in the pieces en barbette, and some nine or ten mortars.
In 1794, Reveroni devised a system in which the casemates of Montalembert were employed, but his guns were so arranged as to be employed in barbette while the besiegers were at a distance, and afterwards to be used for casemated fire.
The former casemated only the flanks of his works, but the latter introduced casemate fire more extensively than any one who had preceded him.
There are also two towers, with casemated batteries, in which are twelve ten-inch guns, to prevent boats landing.
On the south side, extending a mile along the shore, are a number of casemated batteries, mounting about one hundred and twenty guns.
Well, the mouth of the river is strongly fortified, especially on the north side, where there is a big casemated fort with earthworks, mounting altogether some fifty guns of different sizes.
Fort Caswell, below Wilmington, has beencasemated with iron; but can it withstand elongated balls weighing 480 pounds?
We have but one or two casematedguns in battery, but we have brave men there.
The Tennessee River is high, and we have no casemated batteries, or batteries of any sort, on it above Fort Henry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "casemated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
