To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified placeby scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
This was a strongly-fortified place, perched like an eagle's eyry on the summit of a bold cliff that looked down on the Rio de Almanzora, and commanded its formidable passes.
It was accordingly determined to lay siege to Santa Maura, in the island of Leucadia, a strongly-fortified place, which commanded the northern entrance into the Gulf of Lepanto.
The first object he proposed was the capture of Orgiba, a fortified place, which commanded the route to Granada, and which served as a point of communication between that capital and remoter parts of the country.
A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
Defn: A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
Defn: A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
To endeavour to gain possession of a fortified place defended by an enemy, by directing against it a connected series of offensive military operations.
An artificial embankment surrounding a fortified place, capable of covering the buildings from view, and of resisting the cannon of an enemy.
The earthworks by which a besieger approaches a fortified place; generally half sunk in the ground, the other half formed by the excavated earth thrown, as a parapet, to the front.
Neither side, consequently, was in a position analogous to that which is presented in the siege of a fortified place, protected from insult by good masonry scarps.
Sapping, Mining, and the Attack and Defence of a Fortified Place.
If a fortified place is to be taken, he will detach a siege corps, and either continue his march with the main army, or take a strategic position to cover this siege.
As applied to the attack and defence of a fortified place, mines are divided into two general classes--offensive and defensive mines.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortified place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
