BASTION

Bastion

A bastion is an angular structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of an artillery fortification. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and also the adjacent bastions. It is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. Bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defense in the age of gunpowder artillery compared with the medieval fortifications they replaced.

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bastion

Noun

  1. a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
  2. a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel
  3. a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle


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