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The
inner fort of Fort Ligonier was basically a square, about 200
feet on a side, with projecting bastions at each corner. A bastion
was a four- sided work, usually placed at the angles of a fort,
consisting of two flanks and two faces. It was so designed to
enable the garrison to protect both the connecting curtain walls
of the fort and the adjacent ground outside with a crossfire of
musketry and/or cannon fire. Each fort wall was fashioned to act
as a self-defending unit through the use of flanking fire, with
the bastion at each end supporting the other and the curtain wall
in between. The bastion system, which was well established by
the eighteenth century, was incorporated into all but the humblest
of stockades.
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