This precaution seems to be due to the general system of fortification which has been sanctioned by Congress, and is recommended by that maxim of wisdom which tells us in peace to prepare for war.
In connection with a navy ought to be contemplated the fortification of some of our principal sea ports and harbors.
The national interests require that the work of fortification and development of a naval station at Subig Bay be begun at an early date; for under the best conditions it is a work which will consume much time.
In my judgment immediate steps should be taken for the fortification of Hawaii.
In connection with this the establishment of competent magazines and arsenals and the fortification of such places as are peculiarly important and vulnerable naturally present themselves to consideration.
This plan received the approval of the Congress, and since then regular appropriations have been made and the work of fortification has steadily progressed.
The rock upon which the fortification stood was scarped toward the valley, so that it could be climbed only with the help of ladders, even though the assailants were unresisted by its defenders.
Now I would know exactly the passes and best places for fortification in Ivan's country; and you, Captain, are the man to find them out.
Hodgson, conceiving that Horsley has in one instance mistaken a mere summer fortification for a stationary camp, reduces the number of stations on the line itself to seventeen.
These circumstances seem to favour the idea of there having been some additional fortification in this part.
Several camps south of the line, and at nearly equal distances from the Wall and from one another, added security to the fortification in the western district.
As the width of the defile, and the passage of the stream, render this a weak point in the barrier, the two lines of fortification approach very near to each other; they afterwards again diverge.
The Vallum is a little below the summit of the eminence, on its southern side; if this fortification had been formed irrespective of the Wall, it would doubtless have been drawn along the top of the height.
Most writers who have treated of the Roman remains in Britain, have considered that the two lines of fortification are the works of different periods.
A natural valley, consisting at present of boggy ground, gives strength to the fortification on this side.
The whole line of the fortification has been laid down and executed according to a well-digested plan.
Month Tebet, day 21st, year Hammurabi the king destroyed, by command of Anu and Bel, the fortification of Mair, and Malgia.
Simon and John had a disastrous quarrel and during the interval, when the sentries and the fighting-men were killing each other, the Romans possessed the first fortification around Jerusalem, the Wall of Agrippa.
About the base of the fortification was an open space, in which was planted a scaling-ladder.
About it and through it climbed such walls, planted on such bold natural escarpment, that made it the most inaccessible fortification in the world.
Rod after rod of the slowly rising ground he traversed; rod after rod of the tall fortification passed under his inspection, and now the twin Women's Towers rose upon the ashes and scarped rock to the north.
You and Simon do not unite the city; nothing but an united, confident and supremely capable people can resist Rome in even this most majestic fortification in the world--unless miracle be performed, indeed.
The river that lay between some strong city and the advancing enemy was its strongest fortification when the bridge of boats was taken away.
No need to say who it is that flings such a fortification around the city.
Yet we came back from our reconnaissance in the firm belief that tanks could break through this fortification without any difficulty at all.
His knowledge, like the bent of his mind, was practical rather than theoretical, and he knew more about fortification and sieges than about metaphysical abstractions; more about the deeds of history than about its philosophy.
My cousin Egbert has ridden far over the country, and recommends that the Roman fortification at Moorcaster shall be utilized.
All night the work continued, and by morning a fortification much higher than the original tower had been erected all round the ruin.
But as usual he selected a site for a castle within the walls, and left a force of chosen knights under faithful command, to complete the fortification and to form the garrison.
Soon after the ceremony at Westminster he retired to Barking, a few miles distant, and waited there while the fortificationin the city was completed, which probably by degrees grew into the Tower.
Ravelin--An outer defense or detached fortification raised before a curtain.
Fortification was a remarkably exact science, and one that was universally respected.
It was a style of fortificationevolved from the medieval castle.
Even before fortification came the matter of keeping the St. Augustine people from starvation such as came in the spring of 1662.
With the fortification so far along, the Governor could afford to give more attention to other business in the province.
There was no great change in siegecraft andfortification until the gunpowder cannon came into use, but when that weapon did make its appearance the military engineers found themselves in a predicament.
With characteristic realism Don Pablo set about making his own fortification defensible.
Redoubt--A small fortification completely closed by a parapet, thus allowing encircling fire.
The word used for the fortification is generally geweorc, a work, or faesten (in two places only), which has also the general vague meaning of a fastness.
Bridgenorth is on a natural fortification of steep rock, which would only require a stout wall to make it secure against all the military resources of the 10th century.
The lines of the present castle banks, if produced, would not correspond with those of the Tilt-yard, which is proof that the Norman castle was not formed by cutting an older fortification in two.
Thus the fortification appears to be of manorial use, though this does not preclude the possibility of an earlier origin.
It is noteworthy that a motte-and-bailey castle is actually a fortification with three banks: one round the top of the motte, one round the edge of the bailey, one on the counterscarp of the ditch.
We have already referred to the fortification of the burh here by Ethelfleda;[699] probably she only restored walls or banks which had existed before round this ancient capital of Mercia.
So that a popular chieftain might well refuse a fortification which had every mark of a hateful and suspicious invader.
And that there was no Roman or Saxon fortification on the spot is proved by excavations, which have shown that both a Roman and a Saxon cemetery occupied portions of the area.
But the character of the Danish fortification is clearly indicated in the Chronicle: "they made a work around themselves," that is, it was an enclosure.
There is no motte here, but the strong position, defended on two sides by frightful precipices, rendered very little fortification necessary.
But as the real date of the fortification of Cledemuthan is uncertain, we must be content to leave this matter in abeyance.
Edinburgh Castle is an old fortification on the summit of a lofty hill overlooking the city.
We entered the city by the Zion gate, and passed the Tower of David, a fortification on Mount Zion, near the Jaffa gate.
Captain Montgomery erected a fortification of five confiscated Spanish guns on the side of this hill overlooking the harbor after he had taken possession of the Mexican town.
Though Babylon exalted herself to heaven, and made the height of her fortification so that no one could pass over, the broad walls shall be cast down and the high gates shall be consumed with fire.
Neriglissar had continued the fortification of the metropolis, and Nabonetus completed the walls which were intended to enclose the two parts of the city of Babylon on the east and west of the Euphrates towards the river.
Hence Babylonia could only be reached by crossing the Tigris and Euphrates below that fortification and the canals,--a difficult task.
It would have been a heavy task to level with the ground this fortification throughout its entire length of from 60 to 75 miles, the Persians therefore contented themselves with making large breaches in it.
Shortly after the appearance of this article, discussion in Belgium led to the introduction of a Government Bill for the fortification of the towns upon the Meuse, and it was afterwards decided to fortify Namur and Liége.
But he pointed out that vast sums of money had been spent in the fortification of places which were now discovered to be unnecessary.
The Navy Estimates were first discussed, and then the Army, and a sum asked for for the fortification of coaling-stations was refused, and also a sum asked for for defending the home merchant ports.
He inferred that the navy must be the chief agent in defence, but backed by fortification and by land forces.
The President animadverted in his message upon the loss of the Fortification Bill, due to the defeat of the three million clause.
On the 6th I rode back to Allatoona, seven miles, found it all that was expected, and gave orders for its fortification and preparation as a "secondary base.
During the night Johnston drew back all his army and trains inside the tete-du-pont at the Chattahoochee, which proved one of the strongest pieces of field-fortification I ever saw.
Across the narrow neck of the Jamestown peninsula had been thrown a sort of fortification with ditch, earthwork, and palisade.
Somers, Gates, and Newport, on entering the town, found it "rather as the ruins of some auntient fortification than that any people living might now inhabit it.
In October, 1528, at San Miniato he took part in a council presided over by the Gonfalonier Niccolo Capponi to discuss the question of the fortification of the town.
In October, 1546, Michelangelo with Jacopo Meleghino was commissioned to direct thefortification of the Borgo.
The quarries used for the fortification of the Capitol were located at the foot of the hill toward the Argiletum, and were so important as to give their name, Lautumiae, to the neighboring district.
A fortification usually formed by placing waggons lashed together in a circle, and covering them with tangled thorn and scrub.
This curious computation is explained by the fact that the more numerous the garrison the smaller the besieging army need be in proportion to it, since the attack of a similar front or fronts of fortification is little different.
Now I began sorely to repent that I had dug my cave so large, as to bring a door through again, which door, as I said, came out beyond where my fortification joined to the rock.
Below the Gibralfaro, but connected with it and forming part of the four deep city walls, is the Alcazaba, another fortification utilized by the Moors, but the fortress they raised stands upon Phoenician foundations.
