| 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. |
| Only the bottom of the face and right-hand flank of the Saint-Pierre bastioned tower, built between 1687 and 1690 are still visible. |
| Instead, our luxury coaches took us to historic Cadillac and we ambled round its bastioned towers and city walls. |
| 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. |
| A few years later, a bastioned outer wall was built around the keep and lined with a system of moats and counterscarps. |
