Definitions for contravallation
con·traval·la·tion

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1. contravallationnoun

   A fortification built around a sieged target by the besiegers.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Contravallationnoun

   The fortification thrown up, by the besiegers, round a city, to hinder the sallies of the garrison.

   Etymology: from contra and vallo, Latin.

   When the late czar of Muscovy first acquainted himself with mathematical learning, he practised all the rules of circumvallation and contravallation at the siege of a town in Livonia. Isaac Watts, Logick.

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1. contravallation

   Investment is the military process of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape. It serves both to cut communications with the outside world and to prevent supplies and reinforcements from being introduced. A contravallation is a line of fortifications, built by the attackers around the besieged fortification facing towards an enemy fort to protect the besiegers from sorties by its defenders and to enhance the blockade. The contravallation can be used as a base to launch assaults against the besieged city or to construct further earthworks nearer to the city. A circumvallation may be constructed if the besieging army is threatened by a field army allied to an enemy fort. It is a second line of fortifications outside the contravallation that faces away from an enemy fort. The circumvallation protects the besiegers from attacks by allies of the city's defenders and enhances the blockade of an enemy fort by making it more difficult to smuggle in supplies.Lines of contravallation and circumvallation generally consist of earthen ramparts and entrenchments that encircle the besieged city.

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1. Contravallationnoun

   a trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged

2. Etymology: [Pref. contra- + vallation: cf. F. contrevallation. Cf. Countervallation.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Contravallation

   kon-tra-val-ā′shun, n. a fortification built by besiegers about the place invested. [L. contra, opposite, vallāre, ātum, to fortify.]

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1. contravallation

   In fortification, is an intrenchment formed in the same manner as the line of circumvallation, to defend the besiegers against the enterprises of the garrison. An army forming a siege lies between the line of circumvallation and contravallation. The trench of this line is towards the town, at the foot of the parapet, and is never made but when the garrison is numerous enough to harass and interrupt the besiegers by sallies. This line is constructed in the rear of the camp, and by the same rule as the line of circumvallation, with this difference, that, as it is only intended to resist a body of troops much inferior to a force which might attack the circumvallation, its parapet is not made so thick, nor the ditch so wide and deep.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of contravallation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of contravallation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Contravallation
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=contravallation
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contravallation
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contravallation
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=contravallation
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html