| Started in 1831, in roughly triangular shape, this is a bastioned fort with a cavalryman, designed to house around ten open-air canons. |
| Between XVII and XVIII century, the bastioned fortification will adopt geometrical forms which will be increasingly sophisticated to adapt the chessboard construction to the new artillery performances. |
| The relatively simple traces of the early Italian bastioned fortresses proved vulnerable to the ever larger armies and ever more powerful siege trains of the 16th century. |
| It was made of stone and looked rather like a castle. This made it different from the low-lying, bastioned fortresses of Europe. |
| Like the Bregille bastioned tower, it has a circular vault on a central pillar containing a well. |
| Following the raids made by Iberville at the end of the seventeenth century, the Hudson's Bay Company had begun in 1717 to build a large bastioned fort on an island near what is today the city of Churchill, Manitoba. |
