The process of positioning troops or fortifications to be protected from enemy fire.
From defilade + -ing (present participle). Describes the active military engineering process of creating or using defiladed positions.
Defilading became a science during the Napoleonic Wars, with engineers calculating angles of fire and sightlines—it's like 3D chess played across entire landscapes!
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