Equipped with or protected by casemates; fortified with defensive gun emplacements.
From 'casemate' + '-ed' (past participle/adjective suffix). Used in military architecture to describe fortified structures with defensive casements.
Civil War era casemated fortifications like Fort Sumter proved nearly indestructible to conventional cannon fire—which drove military engineers to develop more powerful siege guns.
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