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Curtain wall (fortification)

For the modern architectural feature, see Curtain wall (architecture).
Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey in North Wales, with curtain walls between the lower outer towers, and higher inner curtain walls between the higher inner towers.

A curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress,[1] or town.[2]

  1. ^ Whitelaw 1846, p. 44.
  2. ^ Curry & Hughes 1999, p. 134.

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