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Cheval de frise
The invention of the cheval de frise is attributed to ancient China. Etymology In French, cheval de frise means "Frisian horse". wikipedia.org
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cheval de frise
‖ cheval de frise usually pl. chevaux de frise. (ʃəˈvoː də ˈfriːz) Also 7–9 frize, freize, 9 frieze. [Fr.; lit. ‘horse of Friesland’; because first employed by the Frisians in their struggles for freedom during the latter half of the 17th century to supply their want of cavalry; cf. the Du. name Vri... Oxford English Dictionary
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horse de frise
† horse de frise partial trans. of cheval de frise.1688 J. S. Fortif. 120, Horse de Freeze, or Turnpikes. 1702 Milit. Dict. (Stanf.) Chevaux de Frise, or Horse de Frise, the same as Turnpikes. Oxford English Dictionary
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Ringwood Manor
During the American Revolutionary War, after designing a cheval-de-frise for the Hudson River in 1776, he was appointed by General George Washington as wikipedia.org
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frise
▪ I. frise, n. (friːz) [short for cheval de frise.] = cheval de frise 1. Also transf.1809 Campbell Gertr. Wyom. iii. xxv, Each bold and promontory mound With..armour crown'd, And arrowy frize. 1856 Lever Martins of Cro' M. 145 A low wall, coped with a formidable ‘frize’ of broken bottles.▪ II. frise... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Penang Riots (1867)
In response Anson toured the town and ordered the erection of cheval de frise and makeshift barricades manned by armed police to try to separate the factions wikipedia.org
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Gulyay-gorod
Later, this term could cover mobile barriers like the cheval de frise. It was probably just an adaptation of the German term "wagenburg". wikipedia.org
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herse
▪ I. herse, n. (hɜːs) Also 5 hierche, 6 hersse, 6–7 hearse. [a. F. herse (12th c. in Littré) harrow:—L. hirpex, hirpic-em, large rake used as a harrow. The same word which, in a different group of senses, has now the form hearse.] † 1. A harrow, for agricultural use. Also b. A harrow used for a chev... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sudis (stake)
It has been proposed that the stakes were lashed in pairs at intervals along a log or beam to form a Cheval de frise. wikipedia.org
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cheval
‖ cheval (ʃəvɑl, -æ-) [F. cheval horse (= Pr. cavalh, Cat. caball, Sp. caballo, Pg. cavalho, It. cavallo):—L. caball-us pack-horse, nag.] Used in comb. (as in cheval-de-frise, cheval-glass), and in some Fr. phrases, as à cheval ‘on horseback’, ‘with one foot on each side’; in military phraseol. ‘in ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Dún Dúchathair
There is also evidence of a cheval de frise protecting the entrance. Its age is unknown. wikipedia.org
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Battle of Stresow
The Swedes managed to get past the "Cheval de frise" and break through, but were then rapidly repulsed and routed after taking heavy casualties. wikipedia.org
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Robert Erskine
In 1776 during the American Revolutionary War he designed an underwater cheval-de-frise that was installed across the Hudson River at the north end of Erskine designed a tetrahedron-shaped marine cheval-de-frise, a defensive barrier of pointed logs strung together abreast the river to prevent warships wikipedia.org
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Hudson River Chains
A fourth, a cheval de frise started in 1776 between Plum Point on the east bank and Pollepel Island north of West Point, was begun but abandoned. Pollepel Island chevaux de frise (1776–1777) Another chevaux de frise was undertaken across the Hudson between Plum Point on the east bank and Pollepel wikipedia.org
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Cointet-element
Its invention is attributed to a French colonel (later general), Léon-Edmond de Cointet de Fillain who came up with the idea in 1933 to be used in the See also Cheval de frise Czech hedgehog Dragon's teeth References External links Obstacles on the Normandy battlefields kwlinie.be – A Belgian wikipedia.org
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