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Redevelopment plan of casemates in the bastion no 7 in the first half of the 19th century.
Major part of Zamość Fortress was based on a system of bastions, which originated in southern Europe in the 16th century and followed the Turkish model which, in turn, came from the Middle East and India. The lunette described above and the caponier supplemented bastioned fortifications and belonged to a new system of polygonal fortifications in which heavy fire from relatively small structures with casemates played a more important part than power and strength of defensive walls.

  • Redevelopment plan of casemates in the bastion no 7 in the first half of the 19th century. . This is an example of durability and vitality of fortifications of the bastion system and the continuation of the idea of strengthening of Zamość and the end of the 16th century.

    This is an example of durability and vitality of fortifications of the bastion system and the continuation of the idea of strengthening of Zamość and the end of the 16th century.

  • An image of big retrenchments of Bastion 7, originating in 1827. . Cavalier - huge centered cannon post with a crew shelter, was an expression of the upcoming, new system of fortifications, called the polygonal system .

    Cavalier - huge centered cannon post with a crew shelter, was an expression of the upcoming, new system of fortifications, called the polygonal system .