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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU |
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GLACIS , in military engineering
fire of the defenders to the last possible moment. On the natural ground-level, troops attacking any high work
fire when close up to it; the ground therefore is raised to form a glacis, which is swept by the fire of the parapet
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