Bavarian infantry stormed Fort 10, in which all "bombproofs" except one had been made heaps of débris by the action of the heavy artillery. ❋ Various (N/A)
In one of the two vaulted chambers of masonry which were dignified with the title of "bombproofs," ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
Climbing out of their cellars and bombproofs, the sheltering people looked up as if surprised to see the sun return. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They thought they had bombproofs because the Governor stood up to even Jeff Davis and refused to send them to Virginia. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)
The road plunged through a forest, occasionally they passed a soldier plodding through the snow, then emerged along the base of a ridge honeycombed with dug-outs and bombproofs on its sheltered side. ❋ United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces (N/A)
Although the guns and emplacements were shattered the bombproofs and ammunition chambers remained intact, and, running back, formed a perfect network of trenches and entanglements right around the semicircular valley. ❋ Various (N/A)
The practice always was during the daytime to keep a part of the garrison among the sand hillocks in rear of the fort; and during the bombardment to keep out of the bombproofs about 100 men. ❋ Unknown (1910)
* Gilmore's operations, etc. Page view page image: defense generally acted upon was a vigorous use of sharpshooters and but a moderate use of artillery from Wagner, while the fire of distant batteries was to retard the enemy's approaches, and the garrison of Wagner should be husbanded in bombproofs to repel the assault. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Below and at its feet were other and vaguer shapes -- flat domes or cupolas, bombproofs perhaps, buildings of some sort -- Pax's home beyond peradventure. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
= When time and troops are available the preparations include the necessary communicating and cover trenches, head cover, bombproofs, etc. ❋ Unknown (1906)
For bombproofs a minimum thickness of 6 ins. of timber and 3 ft. of earth is necessary against field and siege guns, or 12 ins. timber and 6 ft. of earth against the howitzers and mortars of a heavy siege train, not exceeding 6 inches in caliber. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Beauséjour was a strong post, a pentagon with heavy ramparts of earth, with two bombproofs, so called, and mounting twenty-five pieces of artillery. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
The year 1782 opened with the loss to the English of Port Mahon, which surrendered on the 5th of February, after a siege of six months. -- a surrender induced by the ravages of scurvy, consequent upon the lack of vegetables, and confinement in the foul air of bombproofs and casemates, under the heavy fire of an enemy. ❋ Unknown (1877)
The whole of the seawall of Fort Sumter had been battered down, but the Confederates were erecting bombproofs on the ruins. ❋ Unknown (1863)
The ironclads kept up a steady fire till our troops reached the fort, the rebels meanwhile hiding under bombproofs. ❋ Unknown (1863)
The torch was then applied to the bombproofs and magazines, and also to the lighthouse on the island. ❋ Unknown (1861)