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TRAVERSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRAVERSE , in fortification, a See also:

mass of See also:earth or other material employed to protect troops against See also:enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the See also:parapet manned by the defenders, and is continued sufficiently far to the See also:rear to give the See also:protection required by the circumstances, which, moreover, determine its height. A traverse is sometimes utilized as a See also:casemate. See also:Ordinary See also:field-See also:works, not less than those of more solid construction, require traversing, though if the trenches, instead of being continuous, are broken into See also:short lengths, they are traversed by the unbroken earth intervening between each length.

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