In fortification, caserns, also spelled cazern or caserne, are little rooms, lodgments, or apartments, erected between the ramparts, and the houses of fortified towns, or even on the ramparts themselves; to serve as lodgings for the soldiers of the garrison, to ease the garrison. Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Rampart may mean: A type of defensive wall consisting of a low earthen embankment topped by a parapet or palisade. ...

There are usually two beds in each casern, for six soldiers to lie, who mount the guard alternately; the third part being always on duty.

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