Named
after French engineer François Haxo who developed this particular
type of casemate. A Haxo Casemate, sometimes called a Haxo Battery, was an
embrasured and vaulted masonry casemate laid into the parapet of permanent
fortifications. Masonry of the casemate was shielded from hostile artillery
and small arms fire by a thick layer of earth which would absorb the
shock of shot and shell impacts and prevent the masonry vault from broken
down. Haxo Casemates were developed specifically for bastion system
fortifications in response to the need to preserve defensive artillery fire
into the final stages of a siege by protecting guns positioned on bastion
faces from vertical, direct, and ricochet fire.
Named
after French engineer François Haxo who developed this particular
type of casemate. A Haxo Casemate, sometimes called a Haxo Battery, was an
embrasured and vaulted masonry casemate laid into the parapet of permanent
fortifications. Masonry of the casemate was shielded from hostile artillery
and small arms fire by a thick layer of earth which would absorb the
shock of shot and shell impacts and prevent the masonry vault from broken
down. Haxo Casemates were developed specifically for bastion system
fortifications in response to the need to preserve defensive artillery fire
into the final stages of a siege by protecting guns positioned on bastion
faces from vertical, direct, and ricochet fire.
