15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

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That's right.
After the walls came the ramparts—star-shaped city walls. Take Frankfurt, for example.
The advantage is that when the ramparts are bombarded by cannon fire, the material slides down from above to fill the gap, whereas with a wall, a hole forms and the wall collapses onto itself.
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