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

To landward the bastioned turrets known as the “Twelve Apostles” soared into a blue sky; from seaward the rollers were thundering up, in front of a steady north-west breeze.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

They were soon in the majority; perhaps because the symmetry and completeness of the idea The bastioned trace. captivated the imagination.

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

It will be observed that the bastioned trace is abandoned, the ditches, like those of the German fort, being defended by caponiers.

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