Site staff re-constructed the fort's firing walls and firing steps.
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The banked earth on the lip of the trench facing the enemy was called the parapet and had a fire step.
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All ranks began digging in the hard chalk to construct a new firing step and parapet and reverse the former German position.
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Anticipating further German counter-attacks the Newfoundlanders frantically dug a fire step and piled a parapet on the reverse side of the German trench.
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They are in effect a trench firing step hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades and raised to improve the field of fire.
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Foxholes could be enlarged to two-soldier fighting positions, as well as excavated with firing steps for crew-served weapons or sumps for water drainage or live enemy grenade disposal.
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The low roof of these magazines forms a banquette or fire step so that the garrison could fire their muskets over the parapet in the event of an infantry attack.
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The fire step usually slopes down into a deeper narrow slit called a grenade sump at the bottom to allow for live grenades to be kicked in to minimize damage from grenade fragments.
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A 1726 drawing reveals the fort was fortified with a parapet that, in critical places, consisted of firing steps, a firing wall held against a This 1726 drawing shows the forts outerworks and armaments associated with it.
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The cease-fire steps proposed by Tenet, according to leaks in the Israeli press, require that Israel conduct a troop pull-back to positions held before the beginning of the current uprising and prevent settlers from launching revenge attacks against Palestinians.
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