"If I understand this correctly the battlefield is less a defile more of a valley." Dadlamassu
having a re-read and wanted to clarify this comment. In my interpretation a defile is a valley, a particularly narrow and steep sided one. That seems to be in line with the Miriam Webster definition:
"narrow passage as between hills, rocks or cliffs"
Am I missing some subtlety of definition between valley and defile? On site the CS topography seems the best fit for the definition I am working to...
having a re-read and wanted to clarify this comment. In my interpretation a defile is a valley, a particularly narrow and steep sided one. That seems to be in line with the Miriam Webster definition:
"narrow passage as between hills, rocks or cliffs"
Am I missing some subtlety of definition between valley and defile? On site the CS topography seems the best fit for the definition I am working to...