fortifications in English

noun
1
a defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack.
Mortars were originally developed for siege warfare to lob munitions over walls and other fortifications .

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1. Map of Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications

2. Similar fortifications have survived at Acre.

3. The fortifications of the castle were massive and impenetrable.

4. In 1943, U.S. forces considered using armed dogs against fortifications.

5. Finally, the fortifications were replaced by the Herzögliche Anlagen.

6. To demolish enemy fortifications, heavy guns had also been developed.

7. The Hellfire fortifications surrounding the portal are beseiged by orcs.

8. They're mapping the roads, the buildings, these fortifications that they built.

9. His photo, stapled to sandbag fortifications, flutters in the breeze.

10. a site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C.

11. Il faut donc Achever ces fortifications.: It is therefore necessary to

12. The enemy did not dare to venture out of their fortifications.

13. The concrete and buried fortifications are resistant to this air attack.

14. He could have built fortifications or trained armies or created armaments.

15. Altogether, an area of around 20 hectares was enclosed within the fortifications.

16. Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates (doroshi).

17. Youths were recruited to strengthen fortifications and to serve in the military.

18. Significant lines of fortifications also lie deep within the Moroccan-controlled area.

19. In the past, armies used catapults to hurl heavy stones at enemy fortifications.

20. It is one of the best preserved historical fortifications in the Americas.

21. The government increased expenditure on modernising the fortifications at Namur and Liège.

22. Contact: Historical Society 1, rue Latouche-old remains of fortifications along the ditches of the old city transformed into gardens, we can see the alignment of houses showing the ancient fortifications.

23. This main settlement had a market and often a castle or other fortifications.

24. 12 All your fortifications are like fig trees with the first ripe fruits;

25. Bartizan, an overhanging wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of ancient fortifications

26. Castles differed from earlier fortifications in that they were generally private fortified residences

27. A Bombardment is an attack by artillery fire directed against fortifications, troops, or towns and buildings.

28. At $ 1 million each, a Tomahawk is an expensive way to blast beach fortifications.

29. A glacis, a covered road and half-moons prolonged the fortifications on the landward side.

30. On 25 April, the government forces moved the camp to Lingbi and began to set up fortifications.

31. Genoa was defended both by nature and by strong fortifications, but Massena planned a more offensive strategy.

32. A Bombardment is an attack by artillery weapons against fortifications, troops or towns and buildings

33. The features of the site include terraces, various buildings, fortifications, and irrigation ditches and canals.

34. To provide protection they erected fortifications between the villages of Na Sao and Na Lai.

35. Counterscarp galleries provided cover for troops defending the ditch of unflanked fortifications and, in some cases, provided …

36. The modern ferry comes in a good deal farther south, beneath slabs of World War Two concrete fortifications.

37. French engineers constructed fortifications for the Thais and built a new palace at Lopburi for Narai.

38. The Mongol strategy was based on capturing small settlements and ignoring the fortifications of major cities.

39. The Counterscarps, which form part of the outer fortifications of the Fort Manoel, have also been completed

40. The glacis south of the branch ditches illustrates the design and defensive style of the fortifications, 1839.

41. The thick mud-fortifications at Pataliputra being reached, all the provinces will be in disorder, without doubt.

42. It was surrounded by a dry moat, creating a 35-foot [11 m] drop from the fortifications.

43. Throughout Poland, groups known as “Bunkermen” meet socially in underground fortifications where they may disturb the bats

44. A scarp and a Counterscarp are the inner and outer sides of a ditch or moat used in fortifications

45. Both sides agreed not to build new fortifications near the frontier and to ease restrictions on diplomacy and trade.

46. And it came to pass that Amalickiah took possession of the city, yea, possession of all their fortifications.

47. The commandant Olaguer Feliú captured six fortifications, seven guns, an ammunition factory and a large number of firearms.

48. 6 However, Hezekiah puts his trust, not in clever war strategies or in fortifications, but in Jehovah of armies.

49. These have been used to clear destroyed vehicles from roads, dig moats, erect earthen-barriers, and construct field fortifications.

50. Built in 1931, the Casemate was part of an extension of the Maginot Line fortifications along France's border with Germany