[Oswald2001]

Originally Posted by wolfie ↗

Trench warfare had to suck.

The pointed stick man trap in the first pic is facinating. Never seen that before in trenches.. Kinda tells me that trench is right in badland territory.

Cheval de frise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheval_de_frise

In use, in different forms, probably as long as defensive warfare has been around.

Even in more modern times.

[Rusty666]

[PTSD Is My Life]

Originally Posted by wolfie ↗

Trench warfare had to suck.

The pointed stick man trap in the first pic is facinating. Never seen that before in trenches.. Kinda tells me that trench is right in badland territory.

The barrier is like that as this is a American Civil War not WW1 where barbed wire was in use and all the wood was used in more important ways i.e. shoring up trench walls and making bunkers and tunnels...