The fortifications of the port, built by the Knights as a magnificent series of bastions, demi-bastions, ravelins and curtains, approximately high, all contribute to the unique architectural quality of the city.

As a result of the merger of the fortress and the main city and thanks to the terrain, the fortress had a shape of irregular heptagon, consisting of 7 curtains and 7 bastions placed in the bends.

Work started in 1579 with the digging of moats and the construction of bastions, walls, and ravelins.

The main line of defenses was located on the right bank of Vistula and Narew, and was composed of a polygonal fortification with 4 bastions and 3 linking ravelins ( one facing the Utrata river, one facing the village of Modlin and one in the centre ).

The Royal Palace ( Gan ' duvaru ) was destroyed along with the picturesque forts ( kotte ) and bastions ( buruzu ) when the city was remodelled under President Ibrahim Nasir's rule after the abolition of the monarchy.

There were 3 types of firing positions-trenches, loopholed palisades and European style bastions from which fire could be directed along the frontages of the diamond.

The government of Laos, along with the governments of Vietnam, the People's Republic of China, Cuba and North Korea are the world's few remaining bastions of communism.

" It had at least 33 square bastions at regular intervals along its length, similar in form and placement to some European fortifications, in order to allow defensive warriors to cover that area by shooting arrows.

File: Lal Darwaza or Sher Shah Gate, with ruins along approach. jpg | Lal Darwaza or Sher Shah Gate, the Southern Gate to the Sher Shah Suri's city, Shergarh, opposite Purana Qila, Delhi, also showing with the adjoining curon walls and bastions

In addition, at each corner were projecting open bastions from which the garrison could fire at besiegers along the length of the wall.

Multiple embrasures were built into the curtain wall along the top of the fort as well as into the bastions for the deployment of cannon of various calibers.

The vaulted ceilings allowed for better protection from bombardments and allowed for cannon to be placed along the gun deck, not just at the corner bastions.

Construction of the inner town was completed by 1733, and in 1735 an additional three northern bastions were completed, along with a post office, the fort's construction office and the hospital.

Archways, gun emplacement rooms, supplies lodges, strong bastions with gun safe boxes, safe boxes of small arms, secret passage to the sea, barracks, jails, warehouses and two block-houses at the last defense line: prove the perfection of the defense plan, which along with the natural fortification made the fortress unconquered.

* Fort of São João Baptista da Praia Formosa ()-also, referred to one time as the Castle of São João Baptista, its ruins are located in the southwest corner of the beach in Praia Formosa ; a small fort, it is constituted by platform of bastions, partially walled and garrisoned, but now limited along the beach by the access roadway, its walls are the only remnants that have survived weathering from ocean storms.

The city of Alice Springs has, along with the Darwin satellite city of Palmerston, traditionally been one of two conservative bastions in the Northern Territory.

During the period 1471 through 1474, he was continually at war, holding ( amongst other bastions ), St Michael's Mount along with John De Vere, Earl of Oxford, for the Lancastrians in 1473.

Some bastions of the old neighborhood remain, as groups like the BGC and GJA, and FDA have worked to keep some banks and stores along Penn Avenue.

In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the system, sometimes well inside the outer walls and bastions, but often forming part of the outer wall for the sake of economy.

Considering his work on such bastions of high culture as the Louvre and US National Gallery, some critics were surprised by his association with what many considered a tribute to low culture.

The lower slopes, together with those of the supporting bastions — the Tassili and the Acacus to the north, Ennedi and Air to the south — carried olive, juniper and Aleppo pine.

King Christian III had the corners of the curtain wall supplemented with bastions in 1558-59.

Villas like the fortified Villa San Marco ( designed by Andrea Cirrincione ) with angled bastions and a drawbridge soon followed.

The most iconic building of the town is the imponent Castello Estense: sited in the very centre of the town, it's a brick building surrounded by a moat, with four massive bastions.

Consequently, its most important defenses, the Reine and Germaine bastions, were directed to the northeast and northwest, away from the lake, with two demi-lunes further extending the works on the land side.

Between 1667-1727, following plans by Francesco Polatta, Jacques Le Prestre Tarade and Sébastien de Vauban, the city built fortifications with eleven full and half bastions.

In 1871 the town was described as a poor place, with narrow streets, fairly good flat-roofed houses, grass huts, decayed forts and rusty cannon, enclosed by a wall 6 ft. high then recently erected and protected by bastions at intervals.

The new walls took the shape of a star with eleven bastions.

A strong wall and bastions, with a broad moat and outworks, and forts on the surrounding heights, give the city an appearance of great strength.

The Venetians improved on the ditch of the city by building enormous fortifications, most of which are still in place, including a giant wall, in places up to 40 m thick, with 7 bastions, and a fortress in the harbour.

Joan of Arc also sent out messengers to the English bastions demanding their departure, which the English commanders greeted with jeers.

In 1590 the walls are replaced with earthen mounds with bastions after a design by Adriaen Anthonisz.

In the 16th century the city walls were so deteriorated that they were replaced with new fortifications and eleven bastions, which still are almost completely intact.

A wooden stockade with a series of watchtowers or bastions at regular intervals formed a enclosure around Monk's Mound and the Grand Plaza.

" In support of this, he referred to " the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero .... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book — a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen — part of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere — corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence — will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.

The northern front garden, at the main façade with its so-called Italian bastions and walkways was reconstructed with historical authenticity in 1998.

The result was star shaped fortifications with tier upon tier of hornworks and bastions, of which Bourtange illustrated to the right is an excellent example.

At the end of the 17th century, two influential military engineers, the French Marshal Vauban and the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare without fundamentally altering it: ditches would be dug ; walls would be protected by glacis ; and bastions would enfilade an attacker.

Eventually, Corregidor and its adjacent islets at Manila Bay became the final bastions for holding out against the enemy, antithesis to being the first line of defense for Manila.

The northern bastion forms the gatehouse and would have had a gun on its roof ; the other bastions would have had guns mounted inside them and on the roof.

* 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 bastions give the Pont Neuf its fortified air.

It was the first stone bridge in Paris not to support houses in addition to a thoroughfare, and was also fitted with pavements protecting pedestrians from mud and horses ; pedestrians could also step aside into its bastions to let a bulky carriage pass.

The fort had four bastions at the corner of its rectangular perimeter.

Braun's coalition government, one of the strongest bastions of the Weimar Republic, lost its majority in the April 1932 Prussian elections, but remained as a caretaker government as the Landtag, in which the Communists and National Socialists between them had a majority, could not agree to form a new government.

The irony also lay in the fact that Kasargod was one of the bastions from which the Ekikarana movement had launched its agitation.

The plans were in fact establish by Henri-Jacques Espérandieu, its old pupil only twenty three years Robert Levet, ' ' The virgin of the Guard in the middle of the bastions, four centuries of cohabitation between l ' church and l ' army on a hill of Marseilles ( 1525-1941 ), ' ' ED.

Two hundred and eighty cannon were mounted on its walls and bastions.

As the castle needed additional defences, despite its island site, some time in the middle of the 16th century bastions were established to the north-west, south-west and south-east.

Surviving plan drawings by Peruzzi show a pentagonal arrangement with each face of the pentagon canted inwards towards its center, to permit raking fire upon a would-be scaling force, both from the center and from the projecting bastions that advance from each corner angle of the fortress.

The fort was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom ; its Carnot wall and three open bastions made it unique.

The Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick Barbarossa had ordered the lay-out of an Imperial city, parts of its medieval walls and bastions are preserved up to today.

Today, the fort, its bastions, and the prison dungeons for criminals used by the Spanish officials, is now part of a historical park which also includes the Plaza del Moriones ( also called the Plaza de Armas ) and several ruins.

The communalism was expressed in a more local, more rural spirit, one might almost say: more southern, for one of its principal bastions was in Andalusia.

The solution included two bastions of the fortified town wall, using its differences in height to create very special landscape.