The Castle of Breno rises over a hill inhabited already in prehistoric times, was the main bastion for the control of Valley Camonica until the seventeenth century.

Each of the twelve gates, represented by its own zodiac sign, is 4. 8 m ( 15. 75 ft ) wide and flanked on both sides by one-half of a bastion which supports the post of a many-tiered pavilion or pyatthat that rises over the gateway.

New York, the second largest state and a bastion of anti-federalism, would likely not ratify it if Virginia rejected the constitution, and Virginia's exclusion from the new government would disqualify George Washington from being the first president.

When the elected assembly, the House of Burgesses, was established in 1619, it enacted religious laws that made Virginia a bastion of Anglicanism.

On April 20, the Union Navy burned and evacuated the Norfolk Navy Yard, destroying nine ships in the process, leaving only Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort as the last bastion of the United States in Tidewater Virginia.

On April 20 the Union Navy burned and evacuated the Norfolk Navy Yard, destroying nine ships in the process, keeping Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort as the last bastion of the United States in Tidewater Virginia.

Lebanon reached the peak of its economic success in the mid-1960s – the country was seen as a bastion of economic strength by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arab states, whose funds made Lebanon one of the world ’ s fastest growing economies.

They seemed to represent, to conservative forces, the last bastion of ‘ order ’ against the ‘ chaos ’ that was taking over the country.

Rock ’ s takeover of Broadway was not the revolution that had been feared – or anticipated – ever since Hair ... Broadway held out for many years as a bastion against youth culture.

The Financial Times commented that the lowly price tag placed on Ireland ’ s oldest stockbroker and " one-time bastion of Ireland ’ s Protestant business elite " was just another measure of the dramatic decline of the Irish economy.

A Progressive Conservative bastion for many years after Confederation, and an anti-Confederation area before that, St. John ’ s Centre shifted Liberal during the Wells and Tobin eras, though by fairly small margins.

David Lillycrop, Abingdon's chair of governors, said the move would ' help the boys to think in new ways but without losing the things that have given the school such an attractive character in the past ', while Felicity Lusk herself remarked that ' There aren ’ t many women doing what I ’ m going to be doing, I think they have been quite brave ... last bastion of education has been broken through '.

It was Safavids who made Iran the spiritual bastion of Shi ’ ism against the onslaughts of orthodox Sunni Islam, and the repository of Persian cultural traditions and self-awareness of Iranianhood.

Calvi had a rounded bastion constructed in the style of the islands many watchtower although the church ’ s bastion is solid and has no internal guardrooms.

A depiction of the Bastille and neighbouring Paris in 1575, showing the new bastion s, the new Porte Saint-Antoine, the Arsenal of Paris | Arsenal complex and the open countryside beyond the city defences

Engineers fill Hesco bastion s at a forward operating base in War in Afghanistan ( 2001 – present ) | Afghanistan.

Aerial photograph, showing the English Civil War defences around the castle: red and blue triangles represent the location of Parliamentary and Royalist earthwork bastion s ; A and B indicate the locations of the Parliamentary and Royalist artillery batteries.

The barrels of cannon s deployed on the terreplein project outward through multiple embrasure s located along the Curtain wall ( fortification ) | curtain wall between San Pedro and San Agustín bastion s. To the left of center is the sallyport — the only entrance to the fort, reached via drawbridge form the ravelin, which is located within the moat.

A bartizan at the corner of one of the reconstructed bastion s.

Frankfurt in 1770, protected by its walls and bastion s

She represents a district in Orange County, long a bastion of suburban conservatism, and is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition ; she reportedly voted with Nancy Pelosi 97. 8 % of the time during the 111th Congress.

It was intended to serve, primarily, as a bastion against the Berbers in the nearby Aures Mountains.

Delaware – Lackawanna is renowned as a bastion for both rebuilding and operating 50-year-old ALCO diesels up and down the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania on a daily basis.

The person of the artist becomes a final bastion of meaning in a world rendered meaningless by the march of events and the decay of classical religious and philosophical systems.

" According to Carr, the " bastion " created by means of the Pact, " was and could only be, a line of defense against potential German attack.

The city, while nominated to be abandoned to the Japanese in the spring by Australian factions was, by September, home to an important Allied complex of bases and thousands of troops were eventually stationed in the area or more often, staged through it, as it was the last allied bastion on the island and the last line of defense against the Japanese before Australia and conversely, a key staging and jumping off point as the Allies got their feet underneath themselves under MacArthur, and began conducting offensive warfare themselves, pushing back the Japanese advances.

The game has been described as " a bastion of humility ", with player names absent from jerseys and a player's number decided by his position on the field.

The cattle kraal came under renewed assault and was evacuated by 10: 00 pm, leaving the remaining men in a small bastion around the storehouse.

As the Chaos King launches his invasion of the divine and infernal realms associated with Earth, the last surviving bastion of Creation, Lucifer, along with the other powers of Hell, confronts Mikaboshi, only to be defeated and consumed by the overwhelming might of his primordial darkness.

The original plan of the bastion fortress was strongly influenced by the ideas of Vauban, the foremost military engineer of the time, and the principles of Star Fort style of fortification, albeit adapted to a group of rocky islands.

Each bastion of resistance was individually defeated by the Qing until 1662, when the last real hopes of a Ming revival died with the Yongli emperor, Zhu Youlang.

In the early months of the war, as the nation was rocked by the fall of one western bastion after another, Halsey looked to take the fight to the enemy.

The next morning, Athos, in search of a quiet place to talk, makes a bet that he, d ' Artagnan, Porthos and Aramis, and their servants, Grimaud, Planchet, Mosqueton, and Bazin, can hold the St. Gervais bastion ( captured by des Essarts ' company shortly beforehand ) for an hour.

The club has been described as " far-right " by journalists in newspapers across the political spectrum from The Daily Telegraph to The Guardian and, in 2002, as a " bastion on the Tory hard right " by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Fortifications consisted of low-level, geometric earthworks ; the ground plan was polygonal with a pentangle bastion at each salient angle, covered by ravelins, hornworks, crownworks, demi-lunes.

This could be achieved by the use of retrenchments in which a trench was dug across the rear ( gorge ) of the bastion isolating it from the main rampart

* A flat bastion is one built in the middle of a curtain, or enclosed court, when the court is too large to be defended by the bastions at its extremes.

The term cut bastion is also used for one that is cut off from the place by some ditch.

He was known throughout Europe as a strong and able leader, a hearty warrior, and looked to by the Catholic world as a bastion of strength against the English crown, despite his conversion to the Protestant faith.

Phythian-Adams includes the region bound by the watershed of the Solway Firth ( the modern council area of Dumfries and Galloway ) as part of his historic Cumbria and goes on to say that " This entire region ..., together with its neighbours to the north in what became Strathclyde and Lothian long comprised a last northerly bastion of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic language ( which has been dubbed ' Cumbric ')...".

Brown and Livingston led their militia companies to their assigned positions that night: Brown by the Cape Diamond bastion, and Livingston outside St. John's Gate.

Modelled on the British public schools, throughout the first part of its history the college both influenced and was influenced by government and maintained a reputation as a Tory bastion from its founding.

The Lutheran movement took an early hold in Ingolstadt, but was quickly put to flight by one of the chief figures of the Counter-Reformation: Johann Eck, who made the university a bastion for the traditional Catholic faith in southern Germany.

Originally a place of worship and pre-Roman fort, built of tufa blocks was rebuilt as a bastion of the same materials by the Grimaldi.

From the Acropolis area of consists of a bastion surrounded by a maze of down staircases and narrow streets The Corso San Sabino ( still present ), the center has expanded to the plain below, near the first Dauni, then Roman, then the early Christian graves.