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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

Belen was defended principally by the citadel of Mexico, a square bastioned work with wet ditches, immediately inside the garita.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

The gorge has a very slight bastioned indentation, which allows for an efficient flanking of the ditch by a couple of machine guns placed in a single casemate on either side.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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




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