Defilading Battery

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Defilading Battery

A battery placed on a raised parapet which offered some protection from artillery on a commanding height.
 
Defilade, angle of; the angle sighted from the outside (and down) of a parapet from which a man standing behind it cannot be seen by line of sight.
 
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