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<p>A <b>bastion</b> is a structure projecting outward from the <a href="page.php?w=Curtain_wall_%28fortification%29">curtain wall</a> of a <a href="page.php?w=fortification">fortification</a>, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval <a href="page.php?w=fortified_tower">fortified tower</a>s they replaced, bastion fortifications offered</p><p>
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