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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)

Those of Paris were simply fortresses in miniature, square or pentagonal figures with bastioned fronts and containing defensible barracks.

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

Fort George, a square, bastioned work, is the best preserved earth-work of its years in New England.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams