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you got closer, the fortifications were found to actually be in very
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castle contrasted the other fortifications Tom could see in several
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Unforeseen advantages had come recently in the form of new ground and new fortifications under Imperial control, such as Fort Hraggstad
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witnessed the defeat of Chinese forces at the hands of the allies at fortifications on the Peiho River
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"Volunteers to finish building the fortifications
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Grindel inspected his fortifications with a satisfied air of accomplishment
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Cherva stood quite still, watching the Preceptor standing atop the fortifications
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and they overthrew the fortifications of the strong wall, and they destroyed the firm iron corners, which could not be rooted out
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I explained that the outer walls of the palaces were not unlike fortifications, although there were windows on the upper level
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They were also appreciative of our plans for hidden fortifications
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Renovations and fortifications of the rest of your properties are already paid for, including The Queen of Waves, and we have more than enough left on hand to start work here
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“I understand the fortifications and helping the poor, but I’m surprised the rest of it is being done at the same time! It must be a great strain on the construction trades and their supply of materials!”
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1 And now my brethren I make known to you that when the enemy had surrounded the city the angels of the Most High were sent and they overthrew the fortifications of the strong wall and they destroyed the firm iron corners which could not be rooted out
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With the information they’ve gathered, combined with what we’ve learned from the defectors, we have a fairly complete accounting of their numbers, cities, deployments, fortifications, and other assets
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“Those of our peoples who are not facing Zarkog’s attackers at any given time send mobile forces to assist those who are, and the rest proceed with further fortifications of their defenses, and the provision of non-combat support
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Stay focused on the mission, we only have a handful to control this time, so make it quick, destroy the fortifications first not the population
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"Grandfather's away, inspecting the perimeter, checking fortifications, trudging through the snow
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"Work teams will start building sandbag fortifications this morning
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fortifications or reinforcing existing ones
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Travis stared down at the canyon and the fortifications
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In the cold, ghostly light of the flare, the naval infantry regrouped and continued their advance, frequently firing at the sandbagged fortifications
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Shocked at the fortifications that are being added and the single mindedness of the robots as they produce the new weapons, almost by the second, makes Grailem vow to defeat this monster race
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They were attacking both Federation and Swordsman fortifications with equal impunity
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‘I could see that you have some serious fortifications here,’ said Siri, ‘But, Hatch, what brought you out here? Not exactly Navy territory, is it!’
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Fortifications remained concentrated in these areas until late 1943
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Organisation Todt was appointed the chief engineering group responsible for the design and construction of the wall's major fortifications
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German resistance blocked the Allied attacks, and the Allied forces had come up against the strong German fortifications of the Gustav Line, centered on Cassino
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‘ The fortifications for the City were built in the time of Roman Gaul, as early as the first century A
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Another benefit is the fact that the old fortifications of the Siegfried Line, along the Rhine, have mostly been stripped of guns and troops in the last couple of years, in order to help man the Atlantic Wall
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The task of those initial units will be to take the enemy by surprise in a dawn air assault and to neutralize the main enemy defensive points, including coastal fortifications and the main German Luftwaffe airfields in the coastal area
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As for ground fortifications, the antiaircraft guns were ringed with low sandbag parapets, while at least two machinegun sandbagged positions sat at the East bank entrance of the bridges
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This trade was most cheaply and thus most profitably practised by leaving the foreign countries as they were and just building coastal fortifications to collect the valuables to be shipped
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In response to the rebels putting up fortifications and posting
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Massive walls extended from the outer fortifications to the east and west, sloping down the hill and then veering south to eventually form a semi-circle
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‘Bhagirath,’ said Shiva, turning to his left, ‘this city has no fortifications
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They built strategically located fortifications for local
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covered in climbing fortifications from a thousand years of
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The Bab El Nasr, Bab El Futuh and the Bab El Zuwayla, entrances to the medieval fortifications of Cairo
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and report on the military fortifications of the city
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There was no gateway through the erected fortifications
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The pass opened up into a wider space, and stretched across it lay the battlement fortifications of Kingdom Pass
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A combination of many things about the entire castle area imparted a feeling of permanence to my new home; the formidable strength of the castle fortifications, the strong capable looking soldiers that manned her walls, the wholesome townspeople, who had welcomed me as their own, coupled with the beauty of the natural grandeur of the castle’s setting, not to mention the long standing traditions of the place
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The wall’s central fortifications lay behind us
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fortifications resting upon that one delicate thread? These delusive and pernicious evils
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The approaching militia had seemingly been forgotten in the chaos and they now swept towards the enemy’s southern flank uncontested, even as the Tranquil Islanders, with a wild yell, started down the earthwork fortifications in a charge towards the western flank of the enemy's battle line
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Sadly we killed many of our brothers, as they threw themselves heedlessly against our fortifications
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I only hoped that was the extent of it, as I stiffly climbed the stairs to the wall fortifications above
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Upon what is “Purgatory” and Saint Worship” founded? Are not its entire fortifications resting upon that one delicate
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The Goletta and the fort being thus in their hands, the Turks gave orders to dismantle the Goletta--for the fort was reduced to such a state that there was nothing left to level--and to do the work more quickly and easily they mined it in three places; but nowhere were they able to blow up the part which seemed to be the least strong, that is to say, the old walls, while all that remained standing of the new fortifications that the Fratin had made came to the ground with the greatest ease
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But I didn't see a thing, not even Perim Island where the British government built fortifications to strengthen Aden's position
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But always after one of these arguments - or, rather, disputes - with his fellow workmen, he almost relapsed into hopelessness and despondency, for then he realized how vast and how strong are the fortifications that surround the present system; the great barriers and ramparts of invincible ignorance, apathy and selfcontempt, which will have to be broken down before the system of society of which they are the defences, can be swept away
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That was scarcely a minor consideration, but from the Allies’ perspective, what mattered most was that Nybar had already seen mortars and heavy Charisian artillery in action, and his fortifications reflected that experience
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The name was something of a misnomer; the Harchongese fortifications which had once guarded the Kaudzhu Narrows had decayed into ruins long ago, following the minor unpleasantness during which the Empire had wrested the remainder of Hahskyn Bay and the area about it away from the hapless Kingdom of Sodar
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They’d come to stay, throwing up fortifications and establishing a depot under the protection of the ICN’s artillery to provide the ironclads with coal
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And as for the entrenchments, well, fortifications are supposed to be of some value in “The army is damned short of men
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And that morning Colonel Michaud had ridden round the Drissa fortifications with the Emperor and had pointed out to him that this fortified camp constructed by Pfuel, and till then considered a chef-d’oeuvre of tactical science which would ensure Napoleon’s destruction, was an absurdity, threatening the destruction of the Russian army
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Neither Bennigsen nor the Emperor was there, but Chernyshev, the Emperor’s aidede-camp, received Bolkonski and informed him that the Emperor, accompanied by General Bennigsen and Marquis Paulucci, had gone a second time that day to inspect the fortifications of the Drissa camp, of the suitability of which serious doubts were beginning to be felt
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He nodded hurriedly in reply to Chernyshev, and smiled ironically on hearing that the sovereign was inspecting the fortifications that he, Pfuel, had planned in accord with his theory
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The brain is at least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec
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straightly charge and command you, that upon the fight hereof yee doe give speedy notice and order to all such subjects of ours which are under your Comission and gouvernement aswell souldiers which are in garrison in the foresaid fort and habitation of Quebec for defence thereof, as inhabitants, which are there seated and planted, to [conforme themselves unto the sayde agreement and to] 841 render according to the sayd agreement the sayd fort and habitation into the hands of such as shalbe by our sayd brother the French King appoynted and authorised to demand and receave the same from them, in the same state yt was at the tyme of the taking, without demolishing any thing of the fortifications and buildings which were erected at the tyme of the taking, or without carrying away the armes munitions, marchandises or utensills which were then found there in
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Forasmuch as there is made a finall good agreement betwixt us and our good brother the French King, and that all differences aswell betwixt our Crownes as subjects are settled by a mutuall and perfectt accord, and that amongst other particularytyes on our side, we have consented to the restitution of the fort and habitation of Kebec in Canada, as taken by force of armes since the peace, howsoever the Commission were given out to you during the warre betwixt us and the sayd King: We preferring the accomplishment of our royall word and promise before all whatsoever allegations may be made to the contrary in this behalfe, as wee have obliged ourselves to that King for the due performance thereof by an act passed under our great seale of this our realme of England, soe we doe by these our letres straightly charge and comand you that uppon the first commoditie of sending into parts and meanes for ye people to retoure yee doe give notice and order to all such subjects of ours which are under your Commission and government aswell souldiers which are in garrison in the foresaid fort and habitation of Kebec for defence thereof, as inhabitants, which are there seated and planted, to render according to the sayd agreement the sayd fort and habitation into the hands of such as shalbe by our said brother the French King appoynted and authorised to demaunde and receave the same from them, in the same state yt was at the tyme of the taking, without demolishing any thing of the fortifications and buildings which were erected at the tyme of the taking, or without carrying away the armes munitions merchandises or utensills which were then found therin
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“In storming the fortifications of Smolensk,” says the author of the Letters on the Russian Campaign of 1812, “when he might have contented himself with surrounding the city and cannonading it, he committed a mistake
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At Borodino the Russian redoubts turned out to be mere sketches of fortifications, and the trenches shallow and unprotected; yet the Russians defended them so obstinately that, according to Labaume’s description, the centre of the Great Redoubt presented an inexpressibly terrible picture
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They were working at the fortifications of the place under the supervision of the garrison pensioners
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We were approaching deep ravines, which served as natural fortifications to the town
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We were approaching the deep ravines which served as natural fortifications to the little settlement
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And at once the boy uttered a shriek, hid his face in the flowers, and ran off to the fortifications as fast as he could go
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Some were sleeping, others were conversing, seated on the shot-chests and gun-carriages of the cannons of the fortifications; others still, who formed a very numerous and noisy group behind the arch, were seated upon two felt rugs, which had been spread on the floor, and were drinking porter and playing cards
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On this side of the bay, between Inkerman and the northern fortifications, on the telegraph hill, about midday, stood two naval men; one was an officer, who was engaged in observing Sevastopol through a telescope, and the other had just arrived at the signal-station with his orderly
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Along the entire line of the fortifications, especially over the hills on the left, rose columns of thick, dense, white smoke; suddenly, abruptly, and incessantly illuminated by flashes, lightnings, which shone even amid the light of high noon, and which constantly increased in volume, assuming divers forms, as they swept upwards, and tinged the heavens
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He nodded hurriedly in reply to Chernýshev, and smiled ironically on hearing that the sovereign was inspecting the fortifications that he, Pfuel, had planned in accord with his theory
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We are all brothers, yet I take a salary for being ready to commit murder, for teaching men to murder, or making firearms, gunpowder, or fortifications
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When money had been appropriated for fortifications, there had been no intimation that it would be necessary to prop them up with a naval force
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If our towns could not be defended by fortifications, he asked, would ten frigates defend them? The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr
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Preparation for war was then a tedious and expensive process; embargo, non-intercourse, fortifications, ships, militia, regular troops
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From a statement which will be made by the Secretary of War, it will be seen that the fortifications on our maritime frontier are, in many of the ports, completed, affording the defence which was contemplated; and that a further time will be required to render complete the works in the harbor of New York, and in some other places
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Resolved, That so much of the Message of the President of the United States as relates to the fortifications of the ports and harbors of the United States, be referred to a select committee
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For what have you given money to build fortifications? Pounds, shillings, and pence, are the order of the day—we sell a little tobacco, a little cotton—and our independence goes to wreck
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We appropriate money for fortifications on the report of our engineer, Colonel Williams, and for the Capitol, &c
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Now, sir, I will admit, if we could prevail on Great Britain and France thus to limit the right of blockade, it would add much to our security at home; for as we have no fortified places, although we may have places with fortifications, it would follow that we should never be subject to a blockade
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But is it true that according to the usages of nations this is a novel system, or one now, for the first time, put in use by the British? Or is it believed, that a nation like England, whose effective force for offence and defence is a maritime force, can or ought to subscribe to a system of blockade which confines its exercise and right to "fortified places actually invested?" What would be the effect of such a system in the present war? France has surely not to apprehend an invasion from England; and if any of the commercial places on her extensive coasts are fortified, the fortifications may be dismantled or destroyed with great safety
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And when we reach the city of New York (the nation's great emporium of trade) do we, on viewing its situation, and strength of the public works for its defence, find it in a perfect state of security? No, sir, unless the greatest part of your frigates are stationed there, to aid your fortifications, and gunboats, it will fall a prey to the enemy
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The only resistance they would meet with would be in passing the fortifications on Staten Island, and perhaps a few shots from Bedlow's and Ellis's Islands
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" This will be partly proved by a comparison between the expense of the permanent fortifications of our maritime frontier and that of an adequate naval defence
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The experience of modern naval warfare has proved that no fortifications can prevent the passage of ships of war
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The present fortifications of our maritime frontier, though they are more numerous and better than they have been at any other period in our history, cannot prevent an inconsiderable naval force from laying many of our towns in ashes
