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DEMIBASTION Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DEMIBASTION is a half bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
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Bastion - Wikipedia
A demi-bastion has only one face and flank. To fortify the angle of a place ... St ...
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DEMIBASTION Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Demibastion definition: a work consisting of half a bastion, and hence having one face and one flank.. See examples of DEMIBASTION used in a sentence.
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demi-bastion
demi-bastion Fortif. (ˈdɛmɪˈbæstɪən) [demi- 5.] A work of the form of half a bastion, having one face and one flank. Hence ˈdemi-ˈbastioned a., having demi-bastions.1695 Lond. Gaz. No. 3100/4 The Dutch were not able to maintain themselves in the Demi-Bastion. 1813 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 198/2 Against t...
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Hesse's Demi Bastion - Wikipedia
Hesse's Demi Bastion is a demi-bastion in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is part of the Northern Defences of Gibraltar.
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DEMIBASTION definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
noun Fortifications a work consisting of half a bastion, and hence having one face and one flank.
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Hesse's Demi Bastion
Hesse's Demi Bastion is a demi-bastion in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is part of the Northern Defences of Gibraltar. Peter's Bastion) during the Spanish period prior to the Capture of Gibraltar in 1704 under Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, after whom the bastion is
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Case 3 - UM Clements Library
Simpler to lay out and construct than a full bastion, the “demi”- or “half-bastion” offered less complete flanking coverage. The demi-bastion was likely ...
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demibastion - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(military) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank. Part or all of this entry has been imported ...
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Curtain Wall and Demi-Bastions - Parcs Canada
The reconstructed Curtain Wall and Demi-Bastions constitute a specialized defensive military structure integral to Fort Henry National Historic Site of Canada.
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demi-bastion, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun demi-bastion is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for demi-bastion is from 1695, in London Gazette ...
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Orange Bastion
bastion along the Line Wall Curtain. During the Great Siege of Gibraltar, the bastion was redesigned and enlarged to become a demi-bastion featuring a retired flank behind an orillon with
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History
When Francesco Laparelli designed the fortifications of Valletta in 1566, he designed a two-tiered demi-bastion known as St. Peter and St. The demi-bastion was too high to offer adequate defence, so in the early 17th century the rocky shore below it was reshaped into a faussebraye (or tenaille
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Jumper's Bastion
North Jumper's Bastion
The Spanish called the northern bastion Santa Cruz Bastion; it was designed by the Florentine military architect Giovan Giacomo It was rebuilt between 1844–7 into a demi-bastion with two flanks and one face.
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Cittadella (Gozo)
John's Demi-Bastion and the medieval enceinte.
The bastions are linked together by curtain walls. The one between St. Martin's Demi-Bastion and St. John's Demi-Bastion is known as St.
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