bastion

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.

A powder magazine was hacked out of the bedrock beneath the Joannes bastion.

Included in this project have been the western walls of the medina, its skala, or bastion, and its colonial-period clock tower.

It features a bastion and fortifications that are part of the Defense line of Amsterdam and the Dutch Water Line.

The city became a bastion for the worship of the moon god during the rule of Nabonidus from 555-536 BC, much to the consternation of the city of Babylon in the south where Marduk remained the primary deity.

It is the 16th-century Chapel of St Mary the Virgin at Smithgate, which formed a bastion in the town walls.

The design of the bastion is more suitable for artillery and a better control for the defenders.

It also served as a bastion against various attackers: notably the French during the Napoleonic Wars ; and against Germany during World War II.

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.

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.

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After the French domination, the retreating French troops took station in the bastion fortress of Gorinchem.

Metaphorically a " Trojan Horse " has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or space.

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

A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional protective fire for the Bastille and the Arsenal ; the bastion was reached from the fortress across a stone abutment using a connecting drawbridge that was installed in the Bastille's Comté tower.

An excavation led by Leslie Armstrong in 1927, prior to the construction of the Brightside and Carbrook Co-operative Society store, uncovered the base of one of the gateway bastion towers, as well as part of the gateway itself.

Yet in 1816, when bastion fortifications were no longer relevant to the warfare of the time, they were mostly demolished and made way for a cemetery and park.

A bastion host is a special purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks.

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 top of the bastion which was exposed to enemy fire would not normally be faced with masonry otherwise canon balls hitting the surface would scatter lethal stone shards among the defenders.

* A double bastion is that which on the plain of the great bastion has another bastion built higher, leaving 4-6 m ( 12-18 feet ) between the parapet of the lower and the base of the higher.

The real objective, however, was to seize the Longyou area far west of Chang ' an: Tianshui, Anding, Nan ' an commanderies and most of all of Mount Qi, the defensive bastion that screened the upper Wei valley.

Baluarte de Santiago ( Santiago bastion )

" 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 defences of the Bastille were fortified in response to the English and Imperial threat during the 1550s, with a bastion constructed to the east of the fortress.