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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812

Note 367 — SECTION XXXIII: CHAPTER II

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The berm is the line where the scarp of the ditch meets the slope of the rampart: the scarp should be perpendicular, the rampart-slope tends backward, hence there is a change on this line from the vertical to the obtuse in the profile of the work. The berm should have been only a foot or so wide and was three.

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