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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.
Many countries have antique looting laws which state that the removal of the cultural object without formal permission is illegal and considered theft. [5] Looting is not only illegal; the practice may also threaten access to cultural heritage. Grave robbery is a type of archaeological looting. Grave robbing is the illegal removal of bodies ...
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 city of Valletta was founded on 28 March 1566 by Jean de Valette, the Grand Master of the Order of St. John.The city occupied about half the Sciberras Peninsula, a large promontory separating the Grand Harbour from Marsamxett Harbour, and was protected by tracce italiane fortifications, including a land front with four bastions, two cavaliers and a deep ditch. [3]
During 1756 and 1757 defensive lines were constructed on the Portsea Island side of the creek under the supervision of John Peter Desmaretz. [1] They consisted of a 15–20-foot-wide (4.6–6.1 m) and 6-foot-deep (1.8 m) ditch backed by a 7–8-foot (2.1–2.4 m) rampart. [4] Water could be allowed to flow into the ditch from sluices at either end.
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.
December 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM The so-called " murder hornet " has been eradicated from the United States, five years after the invasive species was first discovered in Washington state, officials ...
Mocenigo Bastion. The fortifications of Chania were roughly square in shape, and the corners were reinforced by the following bastions: San Salvatore Bastion (also known as Gritti Bastion), on the northwest corner; San Dimitrio Bastion (also known as Schiavo Bastion or Lado Bastion), on the southwest corner; Santa Lucia Bastion, on the ...