Wakes and demands a share in all man's bolder destinies, The high, audacious ventures of the soul That thinks to scale the bastioned slopes And strike stark Chaos from his throne.
Fort Donelson, a bastioned earthwork, was erected on the river-bluff, between the two creeks, its elevation being one hundred feet above the water.
While the trumpets of the storm Pealed the bastioned heights around, Did the dauntless heroes form, Did the low, sharp order sound.
This was an unfinished cathedral; and, taking it as a donjon, Mejia's engineers threw round its columns and buttresses a quadrangular bastioned earthwork, intended for about thirty guns.
In fortification, a form of outwork having for its head a bastioned front, and for its sides two long straight faces, which are flanked by the guns of the body of the place.
A slightly bastioned wall or rampart line of defence, which sometimes surrounds the body of a place; when only flanked by turrets it is called a Roman wall.
In fortification, the largest definite form of outwork, having for its head two contiguous bastioned fronts, and for its sides two long strait faces, flanked by the artillery fire of the place.
It seemed almost that thebastioned wall was sensate, as if the small portholes here and there were living eyes, cold and hard with indifference, nay, even a-glitter with selfishness.
She could no more move than thebastioned wall behind her.
And it was harmonious, from the emerald green that carpeted the floor of the valley near the gleaming river to the gigantic shoulders of the rugged hills that lifted their huge, bastionedwalls into the blue of the sky.
Each of the battalions above named built one of these demi-bastioned forts, and the tents of the respective corps were pitched outside two of the faces, with advanced pickets thrown out well to the front.
Notwithstanding its bastioned enclosure and great outwork which was still existing in 1870, exactly as Vauban had planned it, the town of La Roche-Pont could not have held out forty-eight hours before the German artillery.
The ancient castle, of which little more than the donjon and some outbuildings remained, was surrounded by a bastioned enclosure, with a tenaille on the town side.
Brief description of a regular attack upon a bastioned fortress; sketch of the preparations for attack; lines of circumvallation and contravallation.
Exposition of the essential principles for plan and profile; acquaintance with the parts of a bastioned fortress with the outworks; special acquaintance with a work on Vauban’s first system, and its improvements by Cormontaigne.
They passed over the bastioned square of Fort St. John, Fort Chambly guarding the rapids of the Richelieu, and the broad belt of the St. Lawrence, with Montreal seated on its bank.
The whole was surrounded by a shallow moat and a bastioned stone wall, made for defenceagainst Indians, and incapable of resisting cannon.
Fort William Henry was an irregular bastioned square, formed by embankments of gravel surmounted by a rampart of heavy logs, laid in tiers crossed one upon another, the interstices filled with earth.
On the left, in an angle formed by the junction of a rivulet with the St. Lawrence, was a square bastioned fort of stone.
Taking with him three fresh men at Niagara, he resumed his journey, and on the sixth of May descried, looming through floods of rain, the familiar shores of his seigniory and the bastioned walls of Fort Frontenac.
The Old Soldier, entrenched in his philosophy as in a bastioned citadel, rejoices in a redeemed country strong enough to regard with forbearance the foibles of quondam foes.
Farther west, the stage-stations and ranch-huts were built more substantially, and often were regularly bastioned and loop-holed for a siege.
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.
It will be observed that the bastioned trace is abandoned, the ditches, like those of the German fort, being defended by caponiers.
The larger works were irregular four- or five-sided figures with bastioned fronts; and practically the whole interior space was taken up by a large keep, with its ditch, on the polygonal system.
He objected to the bastioned trace on many grounds; principally that the bastion was a shell trap, that the flanks by crossing their fire lost the advantage of the full range of their weapons, and that the curtain was useless for defence.
He appears to have been the first who frankly advocated the tenaille alone, chiefly on the ground that the flank, which was the most important part of the bastioned system, was also the weakest.
Before leaving the bastioned system it will be of interest to study a couple of actual and complete examples, one irregular and one regular.
The elements of the plan are those of the early bastioned trace, but we find added both ravelins and lunettes, very regular in design.
At the beginning of the 17th century we find the Italian engineers following Paciotto in developing the complete bastioned trace; but they got on to a bad line of thought in trying to reduce everything to symmetry and system.
For those who objected to casemate fire, the bastioned trace was the way of salvation.
At all events the bastioned trace, once fairly developed, held the field in one form or another practically without a rival until near the end of the 18th century.
Belgium, having some money in hand, rebuilt and improved in detail a number of bastioned fortresses which had fallen into disrepair.
Two demi-bastions with the connecting curtain make the bastioned front, defghi.
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.
But yonder, impassive above this scene of persecution and confusion, towered the bastioned crags of the great mountain.
Our forces had charged the parapets and bastioned forts valorously but death was the sole reward of their great valor.
Three strong bastionedforts on the right, center and left on high grounds within a line of entrenchments and stockades confronted us.
Now he is in the tower, in the immense black tower with the massive walls and the small bastioned windows; and faithful sons of the people are watching him, impervious to bribery, enchantment and flattery.
There stood once in a public place a black tower with massive fortress-like walls and a few grim bastioned windows.
It was a leafy way, and here and there between the trees we had splendid glimpses of the bastioned walls and castle-crowned heights of Avignon.
Crossing the Loire and entering the city, with its ancientbastioned walls, carried one back a good way into the centuries.
Belen was defended principally by the citadel of Mexico, a square bastioned work with wet ditches, immediately inside the garita.
He knew how to secure a vast horde of treasure and jewels, how to get away with much of the horde of coins grimed under the bastioned palace.
But a work may be of such a character as to render it unnecessary to resort to all the works of attack which would be required for the reduction of a regular bastioned fort, on a horizontal site.
Plan of a regularbastioned front of a fortification.
Further on, and where the beach has widened considerably, is Fort Kinburn, a square bastioned work, extending to the sea on the south, and to the waters of the estuary on the north.
In a bastioned front the principal outwork is the demi-lune, which is placed in front of the curtain; it serves to cover the main entrance to the work, and to place the adjacent bastions in strong re-enterings.
But for the purpose of discussion, we will here suppose the place besieged to be a regular bastioned work on a horizontal site, (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bastioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
