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Example sentences for "strong fort"

  • The French laid claim to this part of the country, drove away the new settlers, and built a strong fort called Du Quesne, to command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi.

  • On the 8th of April a strong fort in front of the town was attacked.

  • He mentioned West Point as the most eligible site for a strong fort.

  • He built a strong fort on Bunker Hill, ** and employed six hundred men in making additional fortifications upon Boston Neck.

  • Imam Buksh had a strong fort in his estate of Ouseyree, five miles to our right, where he had a formidable gang, that committed numerous dacoitees and highway robberies in the country around.

  • Each has a strong fort and a band of steady men.

  • The pirates seized the Island of Tortuga, built a town there, and erected a strong fort on an eminence which commanded a view of the encircling sea to the horizon.

  • Upon an eminence, commanding the entrance to the river, there was a strong fort, called Castle Lawrence.

  • It was not until the 12th they entered the harbor and cast anchor before the pirates’ strong fort.

  • At Bantam, on the same island, the Dutch have a strong fort with a numerous garrison, to keep the people in awe, who are very mutinous, and far from being well affected to the Dutch government.

  • Formerly also the Dutch had a strong fort here, which the natives took and demolished after a long siege, putting all the garrison to the sword.

  • We crossed many foaming torrents with rocky beds, rushing down the river; and in the evening made a strong fort in an aspen grove.

  • The trail was good, and the country interesting; and at nightfall we encamped in an open place among the pines, where we built a strong fort.

  • In six miles we crossed a head- water of the Kioway river, on which we found a strong fort and coral that had been built in the spring, and halted to noon on the principal branch of the river.

  • And then it was that the Yap people began to build a strong fort, and at night kept a good watch.

  • There can we make a strong fort, and from there shall we have entrance to the sea by the river.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterward found; geographical position; hard struggle; holy people; powdered mace; strong acid; strong appeal; strong central; strong demonstration; strong effort; strong escort; strong force; strong froth; strong garrison; strong guard; strong heat; strong iron; strong light; strong opposition; strong points; strong smell; strong solution; strong temper; strong waters; strongly inclined; strongly marked