I found this detail, however, the absence of external contravallation, like may others in the past weeks, disturbing. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
The old system of intrenched camps and lines of contravallation is unsuited to the spirit of modern warfare. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference
Formerly the false system prevailed of encircling a city by a whole army, which buried itself in lines of circumvallation and contravallation. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
Besides the lines of circumvallation and contravallation referred to above, there is another kind, which is more extended than they are, and is in a measure allied to permanent fortifications, because it is intended to protect a part of the frontiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
They therefore turned the siege into a blockade; raised a strong line of contravallation round the town; and, dispersing their army in every part of the neighbourhood, resolved to effect by time, what they found themselves absolutely unable to perform any other way. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
The parks and the camp at Hounslow were very poor military schools, when compared with the fields of battle and the lines of contravallation in which the great commanders of the continental nations have learned their art. ". From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
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