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Mantlet
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A mantlet was a portable wall or shelter used for stopping projectiles in medieval warfare. It could be mounted on a wheeled carriage, and protected one or several soldiers.
In the First World War a mantlet type of device was used by the French to attack barbed wire entanglements.[1]
- ^ Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. January 1919.
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