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Bastion House in 2011. Bastion House is an office block in the Barbican area of the City of London, England. [1] The building was designed by Powell & Moya and completed in 1976. It has 17 storeys. [2] Its basement contains the remains of a tower which formed part of the west gate of a Roman fort protecting Londinium.
A plaque at the fort states that the southeast bastion was roofed over at this time to create a rare (possibly unique) casemated 15-inch Rodman gun battery. The massive brick arches built to enclose this bastion are impressive. From 1892 to 1903 Fort Warren was rebuilt to accommodate modern breech-loading rifled guns under the Endicott program.
A front end loader filling HESCO barriers during a project at Camp Bastion. This is a list of Forward operating bases. A forward operating base (FOB) is any secured forward military position, commonly a military base, that is used to support tactical operations. A FOB may or may not contain an airfield, hospital, or other facilities.
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.
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A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during the early modern period in response to the ascendancy of gunpowder weapons such as cannon, which rendered earlier medieval approaches to fortification obsolete.
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 Tour Vauban, also known as the Tour dorée (meaning "Gilded Tower") is in Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère. It is an 18m-high polygonal defensive tower built from 1693 to 1695 using a plan by Vauban on the Sillon at Camaret-sur-Mer , as part of the fortifications of the goulet de Brest .