Hornwork

{{Short description|Fortification element}} [[Image:Table of Fortification, Cyclopaedia, Volume 1.jpg|thumb|left|Feature 'f' is a hornwork<ref>From ''Cyclopaedia''</ref>]] thumb|right|Hornwork [[File:Hornwerk.png|thumb|The Weber Church of Zittau inside a hornwork<ref>''Europaeum Theatrum'', Volume 5, plate 12. Published in 1651 in Frankfurt am Main.</ref>]] alt=Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811.|thumb|Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811. A '''hornwork''' is an element of the Italian bastion system of fortification. Its face is flanked with a pair of half-bastions. It is distinguished from a crownwork, because crownworks contain full bastions at their centers. They are both outworks.

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