bastioned
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But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Next the detached forts, begun by the French engineers in 1868 and still unfinished in 1870, can be readily recognized by their bastioned trace.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
In the bastioned trace there is no “dead” ground, provided the flanks are so far apart that a shot from the rampart of a flank can reach the ditch at the centre of the curtain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Belen was defended principally by the citadel of Mexico, a square bastioned work with wet ditches, immediately inside the garita.
