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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLOCKHOUSE , in fortification, a small roofed See also:

work serving as a fortified See also:post for a small See also:garrison. The word, See also:common since 1500, is of uncertain origin, and was applied to what is now called a fort d'arrct, a detached fort blocking the See also:access to a landing, channel, pass, See also:bridge or See also:defile. The See also:modern blockhouse is a See also:building, sometimes of two storeys, which is loopholed on all sides, and not infrequently, in the See also:case of two-See also:storey blockhouses, provided with a mdchicoulis See also:gallery. Blockhouses are built of See also:wood, See also:brick, See also:stone, corrugated See also:iron or any material available. During the See also:South See also:African See also:War (1899—1902) they were often sent from See also:England to the front in ready-made sections.

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