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Star fort: a star-shaped fortress surrounding a town or city (also known as Bastion fortress or Trace italienne). Team room: [10] Tenaille (archaic Tenalia): an advanced pincer-shaped defensive work in front of the main defences of a fortress. Terreplein: the fighting platform on top of a rampart, behind the parapet.
A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, [1] most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. [ 2 ]
The forces of Lord Wellington, including the 3rd Division and the Light Division, captured the city but left the bastion in ruins. Remnants of a cemetery, where British soldiers who fell in combat were buried, are located between the moats of this bastion and that of La Trinidad. [28] The bastion was subsequently rebuilt in the 18th century.
Bastion, a special form of Gabion; Bastion (restaurant), a restaurant in Kinsale, Ireland; Bastion Collective, a global marketing and advertising company; The Bastion Museum, dedicated to the work of Jean Cocteau in Menton, France; Bastion host, a computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attack
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications such as curtain walls with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. [1]
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The bastion was built partly into the lake, and in 1673 the Stadelhofen ravelin was attached, and completely broken in 1837/38. [1] [2] The Oetenbachbollwerk was a bastion of the fortifications, and was built under the supervision of Balthasar Keller in 1532. The stronghold replaced a wooden mounting in the garden of the Oetenbach convent and ...
Fetislam, Kladovo, Turkish bastion fort until 1867. Restored several times afterwards. Niš Fortress, Niš, city defensive walls razed while the bastion fort was preserved. Pančevo Fortress, Pančevo, razed in 1739. [7] Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad, best preserved bastion fort town of the Military Frontier.