The ceintures de Lyon were a series of fortifications built between 1830 and 1890 around the city of Lyon, France, to protect the city from foreign invasion.
Fort de Loyasse, northern corner
The barracks of Fort de Montessuy in Caluire-et-Cuire
The hillfort at Fourvière
Fort de Bron
François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 1832. He is the nephew of revolution era General Nicolas Haxo of Étival-Clairefontaine and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in Lorraine, France.
Monster Mortar used during the Siege of the citadel of Antwerp
A 19th-century textbook illustration of a triple Haxo casemate.