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  • Thumbnail for Enfilade and defilade
    Enfilade and defilade are concepts in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire. A formation or position is "in enfilade"...
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    In architecture, an enfilade is a series of rooms formally aligned with each other. This was a common feature in grand European architecture from the Baroque...
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  • enfilade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Enfilade is a military formation laterally exposed to enemy fire. Enfilade may also refer to: Enfilade (architecture)...
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  • Enfilades are a class of tree data structures invented by computer scientist Ted Nelson and used in Project Xanadu "Green" designs of the 1970s and 1980s...
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    The Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, is a series of three large halls arranged in an enfilade along the palace's massive facade facing...
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  • in which he sang [on "Rolodex Propaganda"] and did the ransom note [on "Enfilade"]." In 2010, Rodriguez stated that he felt the album was “ruined by the...
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    targets to enfilade when attacking troops were blocked from advancing by the wire and then massed together in a line. Another method was to deliberately...
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    architecture, prevalent during the reign of Louis XV in France from 1715 to 1774, is an exceptionally ornamental and exuberant architectural style characterized...
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    trenches were usually dug at an angle in zig-zag pattern (to protect against enfilading fire from the defenders), and at the head of the sap a defensive...
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    designed to be a whole unto itself. Sanssouci is small, with the principal block (or corps de logis) being a narrow single-storey enfilade of just ten...
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    that allowed them to pour enfilade fire into the Confederate line, turning it into a deadly trap. In attempting to wheel around to meet this threat, a...
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    built behind a trench or military emplacement to protect soldiers from attack from the rear or from enfiladement. "parados". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...
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    form a battery to enfilade their lines on the left bank". General Lambert ordered his Chief of Artillery Colonel Alexander Dickson to assess the position...
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    Artillery commander Griffin decided to move two of his guns to the southern end of his line, hoping to provide enfilade fire against the Confederates. At...
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    22nd Iowa Infantry Regiment in support. This position allowed Lawler to enfilade the Confederate position east of the bayou, as well as part of the primary...
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    Naples (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Álvaro Siza, the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE) features an enfilade procession of permanent installations by artists such as Francesco Clemente...
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    about the past." The kola nut is mentioned in the At the Drive-In song "Enfilade" on the album Relationship of Command. The kola nut is repeatedly mentioned...
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    attackers would have to march between enfilading fire from Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte. On the left, any attack would also be enfiladed by fire from La Haye...
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    reale, the King's floor, is another floor of equal magnificence. The enfilades of Late Baroque saloni were the heart and seat of government, as well...
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    defenders to rain missiles on enemies below, and battlements gave them further protection. Curtain walls were studded with towers to allow enfilading fire...
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