blockhouses in English

noun
1
a reinforced concrete shelter used as an observation point.
Three blockhouses were observed being built and they were only 200 metres from the radio location receiver itself.

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1. Blockhouses synonyms, Blockhouses pronunciation, Blockhouses translation, English dictionary definition of Blockhouses

2. New York City Blockhouses - Blockhouses established in present day New York City, New York

3. Forts, Stockades and Blockhouses

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6. Trenches surround the tower and blockhouses.

7. Blockhouses are the perfect case in point.

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9. Blockhouses seem to have come into use in the 15th cent

10. With 11 Blockhouses made from Crescent Harbor to Coupeville, only four remain

11. Blockhouses were normally entered via a sturdy, barred door at ground level

12. 21 synonyms and near synonyms of Blockhouses from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

13. Typically, Blockhouses were made of wood, and had two (but sometimes three) stories

14. Blockhouses were a common type of defense structure used throughout colonial North America

15. Hay’s plan called for leaving the stockade as it was and constructing two Blockhouses

16. A number of forts, blockhouses and timber buildings were handed over to the Americans.

17. During the next 28 hours, she blasted numerous enemy gun emplacements, blockhouses, and caves.

18. Bunkers are mostly underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground

19. Blockhouses were a standard form of defensive works throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in America

20. Different designs were used in the construction of these Blockhouses, but most were either two or

21. Hundreds of them were built in Canada, and Halifax’s early defences consisted of numerous Blockhouses

22. Synonyms for Acropolises include forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, fortification, strongholds, fastness, redoubts, keeps and blockhouses

23. The Arabs built a series of rabats (blockhouses) at Jizzakh, housing ghazis to protect the people.

24. By the 19th century, these blockhouses had evolved into a major fortress for the Emirate of Bukhara.

25. The building of Blockhouses started in March 1900 to protect the railways, in particular the railway bridges

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28. The solution that was derived to protect them was the system of Blockhouses. Map showing blockhouse locations

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30. A fortified camp used by General Beall to train new recruits before deploying them to the newly established Blockhouses

31. The Allied troops were inactive in the winter of 1918, building blockhouses with only winter patrols sent out.

32. The stone foundation remains of those Blockhouses still remain today, hidden in a rugged wilderness that has helped preserve them

33. The Crockett Blockhouse was actually two Blockhouses connected by a log stockade built in 1855 during the Yakima Indian War

34. Blockhouses The wide area across which the British had to stretch themselves made the supply points and lines of communication very vulnerable

35. An 1833 fort plan shows Blockhouses on north and south corners while an 1847 illustration places them at east and west corners

36. Explore Blockhouses, artillery batteries, a quartermaster’s building and numerous traverses used by troops to defend the fort from British cannon fire

37. One of the Blockhouses was moved in 1909 to the Seattle Alaska-Yukon Exposition and later moved to Point Defiance Park in Tacoma.

38. This is a list of Blockhouses built by the British Empire in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War from 1899–1901

39. Most Blockhouses were roughly square in plan, but some of the more elaborate ones were hexagonal or octagonal, to provide better all-around fire.In some cases, Blockhouses became the basis for complete forts, by building a palisade with the blockhouse at one corner, and possibly a second tower at the opposite corner.

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41. Modulové domy Blockhouses nejsou žádným kompromisem, jedná se o domy, které umožňují plnohodnotné celoroční bydlení

42. The Russian Blockhouses and the chapel, which had successfully withstood the wind and rain for nearly a century, were now in a state of collapse

43. During the Second Boer War the British forces built a large number of fortifications in South Africa.Around 441 were solid masonry Blockhouses, many of which stand today

44. The Blockhouses are a few minutes away from the town’s main streets, making it easy for just about anyone to admire these relics of World War II

45. Throughout history four different forts or Blockhouses existed along a rough stretch of the Columbia River Gorge between Hamilton Island and Cascade Locks, known as the "Cascade Rapids".

46. The new work, simply stockaded barracks with no Blockhouses or other defenses, then became popularly known as the Old Garrison, in reference to the old French and British fort sites

47. Blockhouses Following the first British occupation of S.A., Major General James Craig embarked on a program of upgrading the defences of the Peninsula, as they feared an attempt by either France or

48. So Blockhouses never lasted long and were only used for a short period of time, however, it is incorrect to picture a pioneer village without a blockhouse, because it was a very important element in their settlement.

49. Blockhouse is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Lunenburg Municipal District in Lunenburg County.It was named after the Blockhouses constructed by Captain Ephraim Cook to protect colonizers following a raid in 1756

50. Screened by the darkness, the fire of the small garrisons of these Blockhouses was neither sufficiently powerful nor accurate to stop the majority of the enemy from breaking through, even though stopped by the entanglements and compelled to use a single gap.