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Between 1551 and 1554, what became known as the Moritzbastei was built as a bastion in Leipzig's walls under the supervision of the mayor Hieronymus Lotter.In 1547, Elector Moritz of Saxony directed the reconstruction of the town fortifications of Leipzig after they became largely destroyed during the Smalkaldic War between German Emperor Charles V and the Smalkaldic League.
The allied army, some 27,000 [2] strong, outnumbered the French garrison by around five to one and after encircling the town on 17 March 1812, began to lay siege by preparing trenches, parallels and earthworks to protect the heavy siege artillery, work made difficult by a week of prolonged and torrential rainfalls, which also swept away bridging works that were needed to bring the heavy cannon ...
The Bastionder's first exhibit, the Bastion Oranje, was built in 1634 by the Dutch Republic after they conquered 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629. The Republic's subsequent review of the defense of 's-Hertogenbosch found that the distance between the two existing bastions - the 'Vught' and 'Baselaar' bastions - was too great to be defended only by the late-fourteenth-century tower located at the ...
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 ...
An example is the Prince Edward's Gate (pictured in map at right) in the Charles V Wall in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Examples of bastions that have orillons include the Flat Bastion ( Spanish : Baluarte de Santiago ) and the South Bastion ( Spanish : Baluarte de Nuestra Señora del Rosario ) in Gibraltar.
[2] There are two types of cavaliers: Common cavalier – a raised gun platform without any additional defensive features; Defensible cavalier – a raised gun platform surrounded by a ditch. If the ditch cuts across the bastion's terreplein and is supported by cuts, the cavalier can also be considered as a retrenchment. [3]
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]
Vendôme Bastion – a bastion built in 1614 linking the French Curtain to Fort St. Elmo, containing an echaugette. After being surrounded by the Carafa Enceinte, it was converted into a magazine, and later an armoury. The bastion is now part of the National War Museum. [65] Carafa Enceinte – the bastioned enceinte built around the fort after ...