The only remains of any antiquity-except the wells-are the fortifications which the Portuguese erected to keep out the Badawin.
With this view he detached a part of his force into the Jerseys to proceed, in the first instance, against the fortifications at Billingsport.
The remains of the gallant Montgomery received a soldier's grave within the fortifications of Quebec, by the care of Cramahe, the lieutenant-governor, who had formerly known him.
He immediately proceeded to complete the fortifications of that important post, and to make himself acquainted with the topography and the defensive points of the surrounding country.
Sir Guy Carleton was said to be strengthening the fortifications and garrison at St. Johns, and preparing to launch vessels on the lake wherewith to regain command of it, and retake the captured posts.
The troops were disembarked on Staten Island, and fortifications thrown up on some of the most commanding hills.
The fortifications were low, composed of earth and palmetto wood, which is soft, and makes no splinters, and the merlons were extremely thick.
After a short negotiation, the conferences ended in a treaty, by which she was left in possession of Azoph, on condition that its fortifications should be demolished; and the ancient limits were re-established between the two empires.
Next day the admiral gave orders for cannonading the town; perceiving that the enemy were driven from their fortifications at the south mole-head, he commanded captain Whi-taker to arm all the boats, and assault that quarter.
By means of mines artfully disposed and well constructed, the fortifications were reduced to a heap of rubbish, the glacis was levelled, and the ditches were filled.
The French king declared, that should they advance farther, he would demolish the fortifications of Maestricht and Bergen-op-Zoom.
We have driven over the city, looked at the wonderful fortifications and explored the great cathedral with its famous clock.
At the frontier town of Brest the extensive fortifications attracted notice, where considerable bodies of infantry and artillery were also observed.
The twofortifications of Sweaborg and Cronstadt insure to Russia the possession of the Gulf of Finland.
The last unimproved portion of these now defunct fortifications is being levelled and brought into ornamental condition.
The fortifications are of brick faced with granite, and consist mainly of a rounded structure with four stories of embrasures, from the top of which rises a tall signal-mast supporting the Muscovite flag.
These elaborate fortifications are said to embrace a line of twenty miles, and are kept fully up to a war standard.
As soon as they had passed the fortifications their nostrils were saluted by such a stench, they were obliged to wade through such a mass of abominable filth, reaching almost to their knees, as fairly turned their stomachs.
Every position in advance of the southern line of fortifications was lost, and that evening the wires of the Western Railway telegraph, the city's sole remaining means of communicating with the rest of France, were cut.
The Romans worked at the fortifications in three divisions: the rest of the army stood prepared for battle.
They also make fortifications and set up telegraphs and telephones, so that a general may know what is going on in all parts of his line, and transmit his orders as quickly as possible to the various commanders.
He was then about 3,000 yards from the fortificationsat Dunquerque.
The answer is that the presence of a force behind fortifications anywhere in the neighbourhood of a line of communication is precisely equivalent to an obstacle lying right upon those lines.
The gathering of the troops previous to the attack on the fortifications had been observed and rightly understood by these men.
Nor was she sorry that she had found shelter within the fortifications of the villa when the next morning revealed the presence of the invaders.
From afar we saw its tall bell-tower, its beautiful cathedral, its episcopal palace; and as we drew nearer the whole environment of ancient houses and fortifications spread out around those governing points in a great amphitheatre.
Fortifications upon the cliffs entirely commanded the river; and at the lower end of the Defile the castle and the walled town of Donzère, capping a defiant little hill-top, commanded both the river and the plain.
In the autumn it marched into Yorkshire; and the men were employed dining the winter in working on the fortifications at Hull.
They also undertake to reconnoitre the series of parallel ramparts discovered on the surface of the moon by Gruithuysen, a learned professor of Munich, who considered them to be a system of elevated fortifications raised by Selenite engineers.
They are not fortifications certainly, anymore than they are beds of dried-up rivers, for water so light on the surface of the moon could not have dug such ditches, and there furrows often cross craters at a great elevation.
They were long parallel ramparts; with a little imagination they might be taken for long lines of fortifications raised by Selenite engineers.
It was accordingly resolved to demolish part of the fortifications which looked towards the town, and at all hazards to force a passage into it.
They were obliged to contribute to the repair of fortifications and public works, although, as the statute expresses it, "tengan privilegios para que sean essentos de todos pechos.
The fortifications were strong, and the king was unwilling to expose so fair a city to the devastating horrors of a storm.
King Louis, in the mean time, assisted the Templars in repairing the fortifications of Jaffa and Caesarea.
Saladin restored the fortifications of Jerusalem; he founded several schools, and converted the great house of the Hospitallers into a college.
He halted at Ascalon, and completed the destruction of the fortifications of that place; he stormed Castel Blanc, a fortress of the Templars, and appeared with his Mamlook cavalry before the gates of Tripoli.
The walls and fortifications of Ascalon were of great extent and stupendous strength, and an army of thirty thousand men was employed for fourteen days in the work of demolition.
The vast and stupendous fortifications consisted of a double wall, strengthened at proper intervals with lofty towers, and defended by the castle called the King's Tower, and by the convent or fortress of the Temple.
These terms were acceded to, and the fortifications of the strong castle of Saphet were speedily demolished by the infidels.
After a siege of six days, the strong fortress of Tebnin, on the road to Beirout, was taken by assault, the garrison was put to the sword, and the fortifications were razed to the ground.
They surprised and stormed the castle of Lilion, razed the walls and fortifications to the ground, and brought off three hundred prisoners of both sexes, together with a rich prize of sheep and oxen.
The intelligence of these events reached the Grand Master of the Temple when he was busily engaged in rebuilding the vast and extensive fortifications of the Holy City.
The place surrendered after a short siege; the fortifications were demolished, but the fate of the garrison has not been recorded.
For weeks the siege was pressed, till the shattered fortifications and diminishing resistance of the besieged gave evidence that the city could not hold out much longer.
In the following May a parapet for the practice of field pieces, and some of the early wooden fortifications were constructed.
Stony Point was included in the fortifications which he intended to betray.
Its fortifications and the massive walls that girdle it have long been celebrated.
Adjoining the Castle are the Cabañas, a vast range of fortifications more than a mile in length, and nearly a thousand feet in breadth.
Following still the valley of the Isère, one comes to the Chateau de la Sone, at one time one of the strongest fortifications of the lower valley.
There are no magnificent monumental remains of Roman times left in these parts save occasional fragments and towers which presumably served for signalling purposes as a part of the fortifications of the Saracens.
The tracings of the former fortifications are plainly marked, though the walls themselves have disappeared.
The town itself was oblong in shape, built upon a tongue of land upon which the fortifications were erected with a due east aspect.
In addition to their antipathy to war, the Pennsylvanians now pleaded poverty as an excuse for refusing to assist in contributing funds towards the restoration of the fortifications of New York.
It was the only regiment of the Sixth Corps which got inside the enemy's fortifications that day.
The first duty assigned the regiment was to erect fortifications at Tenallytown, Md.
The Duke of Holstein, becoming much alarmed at these preparations, hastened on the fortifications of Tonningen, on the Eider, three leagues from its mouth.
The Swedes engaged on the work gained strength rapidly, and, by the time the fortificationswere finished, they had completely shaken off the effects of the fever.
This was very entertaining to the boys, and they were still more pleased when they saw the fortifications of Portsmouth, with cannon pointing seaward, and with many vessels riding in the strait by the side of the town.
They had taken part in the great victory at Beersheba, and then, driving the Turks before them over the mountains of Judea, had finally stormed the fortifications of Hebron.
Other battalions were chosen for this proud undertaking, and when General Allenby entered the Holy City in triumph Sam and Jerry were still in the neighbourhood of Hebron, engaged in repairing the fortifications and restoring order.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortifications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
