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Ancient Web: Starforts.com Made an Obsession Out of Pointy Forts

Starforts.com catalogs bastioned fortifications around the world and explains why artillery changed medieval walls into geometric defensive systems covered in triangles, ravelins, and overlapping fields of fire.

Ancient Web: BunkerTours Crawled Through the Maginot Line So the Rest of Us Could Study It

Dan McKenzie's BunkerTours pages document Maginot Line ouvrages and fortifications with field photography and detail useful enough to be cited by later reference works.