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  • Thumbnail for Trench warfare
    concrete staircases to reach the upper levels. Trenches were never straight but were dug in a zigzagging or stepped pattern, with all straight sections...
    124 KB (15,801 words) - 00:18, 25 November 2024
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    of German-occupied Poland. Jewish laborers in the camps had to dig zigzag trenches, supposedly for air defense, in late October. Thousands of SS and police...
    28 KB (3,306 words) - 06:18, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Malakoff (food)
    defended in particular by Fort Malakoff. General Aimable Pélissier had zigzag trenches dug to allow an approach to the fort safe from Russian artillery. During...
    5 KB (514 words) - 07:41, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Ak-Mechet
    ordered the construction of a mine into Ak-Mechet, the construction of zigzag trenches, and a bombardment of the fortress. From July 5 to July 8, Lieutenant...
    19 KB (2,295 words) - 02:40, 24 November 2024
  • base contained around 1,200 recruits.: 75  The base was surrounded by zigzag trenches and bunkers. The plan involved three stages, an aerial attack by SAAF...
    14 KB (1,641 words) - 11:48, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Port Hudson
    involve infantry rushing the trenches, but a siege technique called sapping, or constructing a series of zigzag trenches, fortified batteries, and sharpshooter...
    68 KB (9,190 words) - 03:21, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Narva (1581)
    blocked off any aid from the sea. Pontus ordered the construction of zigzagging trenches approaching the walls of the city of which he placed mortars inside...
    8 KB (791 words) - 14:41, 18 November 2024
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    enough to exploit the breach, more zigzag trenches could be dug even closer to the walls, with more parallel trenches to protect and conceal the attacking...
    77 KB (10,266 words) - 09:00, 23 November 2024
  • locating the exact boundaries of the battery and finding evidence of a zigzag trench, or sap, that historical accounts say the Union troops dug from the...
    10 KB (1,091 words) - 00:54, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Cassinga
    'drive-in' bunkers for armoured fighting vehicles covering approach roads, zigzag trenches surrounding the base, foxholes for machine guns/mortar crews – and...
    54 KB (7,285 words) - 18:04, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flexible defense
    the barrier have been built 2 or 3 rings or meandering lines of zigzagging trenches that are adapted terrain and natural objects (e.g. rocks and humps)...
    22 KB (2,830 words) - 17:58, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fortifications of Alderney
    forts were converted into SPs or WNs. Each defence area comprised zigzag trenches, machine gun posts, weapons pits, barbed wire, minefields and if appropriate...
    21 KB (2,857 words) - 11:23, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thirteenth siege of Gibraltar
    supposed to come by sea]. Sometime after the same person came out of the zigzag [trenches] beating a chammade and was admitted into the town and deliver'd Lord...
    32 KB (4,839 words) - 14:07, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clay pigeon shooting
    attached to the center of a two-blade propeller of different color designed to zigzag in flight in a totally unpredictable manner. Traps are purpose-made, spring-loaded...
    24 KB (3,443 words) - 07:00, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Porto Acre
    attack on 15 January 1903 that soon petered out. His men started to dig zigzag trenches to the Bolivian lines. Eventually, with his forces exhausted and almost...
    11 KB (813 words) - 00:39, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for José Plácido de Castro
    By now Plácido had 2,000 men under his command. They started to dig zigzag trenches to the Bolivian lines. Eventually, with his forces exhausted and almost...
    16 KB (1,952 words) - 19:40, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Graphene nanoribbon
    states of GNRs largely depend on the edge structures (armchair or zigzag). In zigzag edges each successive edge segment is at the opposite angle to the...
    44 KB (4,988 words) - 08:06, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Assault course
    steps; Ramp and ditch; Low wall; 2m deep Pit; Vertical ladder; High wall; Zigzag balance beam; Chicane; Three low walls close together. The women's competition...
    23 KB (3,701 words) - 17:44, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indian Army Corps of Engineers
    or mining. Sapping is the technique of accurately digging trenches, usually covered or zigzag, to cover one's approach to the point of assault. Corps of...
    15 KB (1,527 words) - 03:18, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bekal Fort
    Pallikkara, Bekal, Mavval, Kottikkulam, and Uduma. The fort's zigzag entrance and surrounding trenches reveal its defensive strategy. Holes on the outer walls...
    9 KB (760 words) - 14:11, 20 November 2024
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