The outer wall protected the inner one from siege engines, while the inner wall and the projecting towers provided flanking fire from crossbows.
22.
All the south wall warehouses, or godowns, had been erected outside the fort, which precluded any flanking fire from the two south bastions.
23.
In 1944 the fort was captured by Soviet forces and partially blown up ( all gun casemates for flanking fire and the caponiers ).
24.
Despite devastating flanking fire the allied column, made up of British and Hanoverian infantry, burst through the French lines to the point of victory.
25.
Stannard once again wheeled two regiments ( the 14th and 16th Vermont ) and repeated his tactic of flanking fire to repulse the assault.
26.
It zigzags up the slope of The Rock in four stages in a configuration that lets the defenders give flanking fire to each face.
27.
The long end of the'Z'ambush was located on one side of a trail or road enabling the ambushers to employ both enfilading and flanking fire.
28.
However, the tide of battle was about to turn, as flanking fire raked P�ckh's battalion, annihilating it as a fighting force and killing its commander.
29.
Wall towers, also known as mural towers, provide flanking fire ( from crossbows or other projectile weapons ) to a straight part of the curtain wall.
30.
The German artillery had been reorganised into divisional groups and batteries south of the Scarpe, maintained flanking fire on the French guns north of the river.
