He spent the next five years in the army, residing at Ventimiglia, Genoa, and various Alpine fortresses to superintend defence works; but he spent his leisure hours in study, especially of the English language.
During the campaigns in Flanders, with its multiplicity of fortresses and clayey soil, cavalry rapidly degenerated into mounted infantry, throwing aside sword and lance-proof armour, and adopting long muskets and heavier ammunition.
On the morrow the Lord Brook welcomed his Sovereign to Warwick Castle, the finest of those fortresses of the middle ages which have been turned into peaceful dwellings.
In one respect however the fate of the two fortresses was very different.
Namur, situated at the confluence of the Sambre and the Meuse, was one of the great fortresses of Europe.
These fortresses were large houses five or six stories high, containing ever so many little rooms, each occupied by one family.
In each of these fortresses there was a great cistern, full of water, and so large a supply of food that the Indians could stand a long siege.
The Indians who lived there were gentle, and not fond of fighting, but they built fortresses and cliff dwellings to defend themselves when attacked by the savage Indians.
Walls built of dry stone have been used in Ireland as fortresses from the most remote antiquity; but the art of building with mortar was entirely unknown until after the introduction of Christianity.
It is one of the most ancient cyclopean fortresses in Ireland, or, perhaps, in the world.
The principal fortresses are, Dun Aengus, Dun Connor, Dun Onacht and Dun Eochla.
There was a dun within a dun, as there generally was in all ancient Irish fortresses of any great extent.
These vast fortresses look as if they were the work of giants.
These monuments consist of vast drystone fortresses that were raised by some pre-historic race.
They failed, as at first, in their attempts to subjugate the province of Arad, and in their efforts to capture the fortresses which guarded the caravan routes between Ashdod and the mouth of the Jordan.
The latter was a military colony, and was chiefly distributed among the five fortresses which commanded the Shephelah.
So was it that both Moors and Spaniards made their keys of fortresses and citadels almost into an object of their worship.
In mediaeval times the keys of cities, castles, towns, and fortresses were held to be significant of ownership, or vigilance, or conquest.
The Romans made the towers of their fortresses of a round shape, in order to avoid as far as possible the blows of the battering-ram; and their miners, whether from habit or intentionally, made the mouths of their mines round also.
It was possible to see clearly the steep, jagged cliffs, dark, yellow or rose colored, recalling by their forms the ruins of fortresses or of temples built by giants.
Finally they reported to him, that at the first news of a movement among the Libyans, not only had all laborers fled from the glass works, but that even the troops had withdrawn from fortresses in Sochet-Heman on the Soda Lakes.
Along that canal they would build fortresses and concentrate a numerous army--all the trade with unknown nations of the Orient and the West would fall into the hands of Egyptians.
Pozières-Thiepval series of fortresses at the western extremity of the ridge was too powerful to yield to frontal attack, and it was therefore decided to extend the hold on the centre portion of the ridge.
Like all the frontier habitations, which are rather fortresses than houses, it was only pierced on the side of the plain with a few narrow windows resembling loopholes, and protected by solid iron bars.
A large Russian force now arrived and took Derbent, Shemakha, Baku, and several other fortresses in Daghestan, but the death of the Empress Catherine in 1796 put an end to the campaign, for Tsar Paul recalled all the troops from Transcaucasia.
However, in the early summer of 1612 the Danes took the important fortresses of Elfsborg and Gullberg, and having the entire command of the Cattegat and the Belts, cut off Sweden from the sea.
The standing army had almost melted away; the regiments of archers and charioteers were no longer effective, and the neglected fortresses were not strong enough to protect the frontier.
Memphis, which realised the imminent danger, broke out into open murmurs against the negligent rulers who had given no heed to the country's ramparts, and had allowed the garrisons of its fortresses to dwindle away.
Our own soldiers we have to send into the field, and our cities and fortresses are occupied by French garrisons.
You will tell him this: I offer to evacuate all fortressesin Germany to the Rhine, and consent to the dissolution of the Confederation of the Rhine.
Ruined cities, fortresses overthrown, lands laid waste, the earth reduced to a desert.
Then it was that bishops began to build fortresses for the defence of their peoples.
It was commanded for the King by Sir Francis Bassett, and, like most other Cornish fortresses at that period, was gallantly defended.
Southsea Castle, which owes its origin, as do so many other similar fortresses along the south coast, to King Henry VIII, was already in existence when Leland paid the place his visit.
His debts, which were enormous, were paid; he was made Governor of the Isle de France, and received three fortresses as places of security.
Fortresses were built in the principal towns; the meetings of the Calvinists were dispersed; and many suffered death on the scaffold, or at the hands of a ruthless soldiery.
No matter what fields are desolated, what fortresses surrendered, what armies subdued, or what provinces overrun.
The public edifices are remarkable rather for massive strength than architectural beauty, looking more like fortresses than palaces, and black with stone and time.
Al-Alfi and Osman Bey Hasan had professed allegiance to the pasha; but they soon after declared against him, and they were now approaching from the south; and having repulsed Mehemet Ali, they took the two fortresses of Tura.
According to the paintings of the Middle Kingdom in the tombs of Beni Hasan, the battlements of brick fortresses were attacked and wrenched away with long and massive spears.
His short reign was marked by some fairly successful incursions into Armenia, and the recovery of the fortresses Marash and Tell Hamdun, which had been retaken by the Armenians.
Virginia may secede, and hold the fortressesin the Chesapeake.
For not even the shrill music of Luca Signorelli's angels, hovering above the gloomy fortresses of Orvieto with their hair streaming in the breeze of the dawn, can raise her up to life.
Her old brown houses bulged out over the steep little streets, or towered like lean fortresses on her city wall, with all manner of green things, even fig-trees, growing out of them.
The troops of France had the honor of rendering Sebastopol untenable, carrying by storm one of its two great fortresses and turning its guns upon the city.
The army had suffered severely in its brief campaign, and the Austrians were still in possession of the Quadrilateral, a square of powerful fortresses which he might seek in vain to reduce.
The states have their respective armies, but it is the emperor who disposes of them; he appoints the heads of the contingents, approves the generals, and has the right to establish fortresses over the whole territory of the empire.
Moreau advanced to Vienna, where the emperor was forced to sign an armistice, giving up to France the valley of the Danube, the country of the Tyrol, a number of fortresses and large magazines of war material.
MacMahon retreated in haste towards the army at Chalons, while the crown prince took possession of Alsace, and prepared for the reduction of the fortresses on the Rhine, from Strasburg to Belfort.
In one of the fortresses there he is most likely to be confined.
Some of these resisted; but their fortresses were speedily stormed.
By these, the Christians were to surrender Ascalon, but were to keep Jaffa, Tyre, and the fortresses along the coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
