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Covered way
- a path on the attackers side of the ditch sunk below the glacis
and usually afforded
protection by a parapet.
Troops on the covered way were in effect, the first line of defence. Place of arms
were spaces on the covered way, usually within a
salient, where troops could muster.
See fortification