Capital (fortification)

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles. (January 2025) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article relies on a single source. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Capital" fortification – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

In fortification, the capital of a bastion is a line drawn either from the angle of the polygon to the point of the bastion, or from the point of the bastion to the middle of the gorge. The capitals are from 35 to 40 fathoms long, from the point of the bastion to the point where the two demigorges meet.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Capital". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.

This architectural element–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e