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The Yellow Fortress or Yellow Bastion (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Žuta Tabija, Serbian Cyrillic: Жута Табија) is a cannon fortress at the entrance of the "Walled City of Vratnik". It was built between 1727 and 1739 in area called Jekovac, close to the Jajce Barracks and the Jekovac water reservoir.
Construction of Lascaris Battery began in 1854, [2] on the site of Ġnien is-Sultan, a garden that had been built by Grand Master Giovanni Paolo Lascaris. [3] [4] The battery was thus named after him. [5] During the Second World War, the Lascaris War Rooms were dug under the Upper Barrakka Gardens and the casemates of the Lascaris Battery, into ...
The game is set in Bastion, a city that has what critic Pauly Beakley called "a 1920s aesthetic". [3] Bastion is ever-changing because the gamemaster — called the Conductor [4] — randomly generates details for the city as an adventure progresses. That information is overwritten by new randomly generated details and the old information ...
Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, [1] natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), [2] or rioting. [3] The proceeds of all these activities can be described as booty, loot, plunder, spoils, or ...
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 ]
St. Michael's Bastion, also known as Spencer's Bastion [30] – a demi-bastion on the western extremity of the land front. Two windmills were built on it in 1674, but they were demolished in the 19th century. [31] [32] The bastion now forms part of Hastings Gardens. [33] St. John's Curtain – the curtain wall linking St. Michael's and St. John ...
A 17th-century plan of the fortress town of Coevorden in the Netherlands Map of Palmanova in 1593. The town is encircled by massive Venetian defensive systems that are a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 9 July 2017. [1] This is a list of bastion forts.
Feature 'f' is a hornwork [1] Hornwork The Weber Church of Zittau inside a hornwork [2] Drawing, showing a hornwork, of the fortress Nya Älvsborg in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1811. A hornwork is an element of the Italian bastion system of fortification. Its face is flanked with a pair of half-bastions.