Back then the messengers go till they arrive at Cruachan, the stronghold of Connacht.
As a feudal stronghold it can hardly fail to appeal to the imagination.
The Tower is mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle in a way not incompatible with the fact of a Saxon stronghold having stood upon this spot.
Galeotto's memorial, not a doubt, had stirred up matters; and Pier Luigi would be under orders from his father not to add one more scandal to the many of his life by venturing to disturb Madonna Bianca in her stronghold at Pagliano.
In all, or nearly all, of the wars chronicled thus far troops from northern Africa were engaged, while the same region was a stronghold for pirates who sailed the Spanish coasts.
The former seigniorial stronghold of Aragon proper was in this war the most powerful royalist element.
And how is it possible to help losing a stronghold that is not relieved, above all when surrounded by a host of determined enemies in their own country?
Although they fought bravely and well to prevent the Union troops from getting control of the Mississippi River, by the close of 1862 the South had lost every strongholdon the river except Port Hudson and Vicksburg.
For the day following the battle of Gettysburg, General Grant captured Vicksburg, the greatest Confederate strongholdon the Mississippi River.
Four days later Port Hudson, some distance below, was captured, and thus the last stronghold of the Mississippi came under control of the North.
This stronghold was built amid the western mountains to overawe the Indians and as a refuge for the settlers.
About the same time with the capture of Hillsboro, a most gallant and successful attack was made upon the Tory stronghold at Elizabethtown, in Bladen county.
He drew near at midnight, and with unloaded muskets, and courage that has never been surpassed, captured the stronghold at the point of the bayonet.
The resistance of their stronghold was the main cause of our being scattered at Bothwell Bridge, and I have bound it upon my soul to visit it upon them.
As the country was chiefly friendly to their cause, and in possession of their detached parties, excepting here and there the stronghold of some old cavaliering Baron, they travelled without any other attendant than the faithful Cuddie.
By means of it I doubt not but that I may enter the stronghold where the false Alcina holds Rogero in durance, and may succeed in vanquishing her and liberating him.
Glencardine was a stronghold feared by all the surrounding nobles, and its men were full of valour and bravery.
The legend of Glencardine was the same as that of the old Magyar stronghold of Hetzendorf.
Nevertheless, Rhode Island was and is thestronghold of the Friends in New England.
Her land is doubtless destined to become the greatest stronghold of the Aryan race.
At dark the Mexicans again entered their stronghold and barricaded themselves.
The treaty was signed and Clarke’s eyes looked hungrily at Detroit—the greatstronghold of the British.
Athwart our first glimpse of the ocean stands the dilapidated bulk of Dunure Castle, an ancient stronghold of the Kennedys, who have stood at the head of the Ayrshire aristocracy since 1466.
The remainder of the present castle was built as a stronghold against the English, only to be taken by them shortly after its completion.
But for the confusion of all who doubt his Hampshire origin, the name Bevis Mount still preserves on the Itchen bank the memory of a stronghold he threw up here against the Danes; and who was he if not Bevis of Hampton?
La Salle set about founding his proposed stronghold at Niagara; but the natives, as soon as the defensive works began to take shape, demurred to their being continued.
These mountains formed the stronghold of the Israelites, who never maintained sway for any length of time over the lower surrounding country.
In 1291, the Christians, by this time reduced to their laststronghold of Acre, were finally expelled by the Moslems from Palestine--and that was the end of the Crusades.
John of Gischala, summoning his adherents, and bidding the young men hasten for their armour, betook himself to his stronghold within the Sacred Place.
It occupied the site of an old garrison built and occupied by John Woodcock, the famous Indian fighter, as a stronghold against the attacks of his red foes.
When an assault upon a stronghold fails, a general tries to starve his enemy into submission.
But so fine a stronghold could not be held sacred to spiritual warfare, and in 1191 a party of soldiers disguised themselves as pilgrims and, so obtaining admission to the fortress, turned on their unarmed hosts and expelled them.
Black Prince came down to Cornwall in 1353 to make acquaintance with his duchy, for he took that as seriously and conscientiously as everything else, the stronghold was in a parlous condition.
He also thought that it was better to go yonder at all events and attack an unguarded land, than an island, which was a natural stronghold and in addition was guarded by a strong castle and the customary garrison.
It often happened that while the Germans were stealing through the forest, to attack some stronghold and to seize the peasants or the cattle, at the same time, the Mazurs were doing the same.
