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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLACIS , in military See also:

engineering (see FORTIFICATION AND SIEGECRAFT), an artificial slope of See also:earth in the front of See also:works, so constructed as to keep an assailant under the See also:fire of the defenders to the last possible moment. On the natural ground-level, troops attacking any high See also:work would be sheltered from its fire when See also:close up to it; the ground therefore is raised to See also:form a glacis, which is swept by the fire of the See also:parapet. More generally, the See also:term is used to denote any slope, natural or artificial, which fulfils the above requirements.

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