Banquette

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Banquette (along the wall on the right) on the Alhambra fortress in Spain.
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Banquette (along the wall on the right) on the Alhambra fortress in Spain.

In fortification, a banquette is a little foot path or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet, by which the musketeers get up to view the counterscarp, or to fire on the enemies in the moat. These are generally a foot and a half high, and almost three feet wide.

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  1. This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]
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