The next year saw the building of the four main bastions and a sawmill on the La Chute.
As we know the catholic church was one of the main conservative bastions in most other countries of the time.
In front of the two main bastions a ditch seems to have been present.
"Give me a breach to the right of that main bastion, and two on either side of it through the inner wall, and we'll do the rest."
The main bastion had been destroyed, and a breach opened in the walls.
He finds a job on an archaeological dig near the main bastion in central Tallinn.
The area appears to have been the main bastion of Scottish Gaelic culture south of the Highlands in medieval times.
The church has lost some of the power it held when it was seen as the country's main bastion against the Communist authorities.
Instigating several rebellions in the north, Warwick lured the king away from his main bastion of support in the south.
Not so much in the country, away from the main bastions.