Word Finder - fortifications

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The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.

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That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.

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An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.

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A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.

The fortifications are among the most elaborate in the kingdom.

Using the extra sand, they made fortifications and bedded down for the night behind them.

Restored to Prussia in 1816 it was again fortified, but in 1862 the fortifications were converted into a public park.

In place of its ancient fortifications Angouleme is encircled by boulevards known as the Remparts, from which fine views may be obtained in all directions.

During the continuance of the lease Germany exercises all the rights of territorial sovereignty, including the right to erect fortifications.

Blue Town, the older part of the town, with the dockyard, is defended by strong modern-built fortifications, especially the forts of Garrison Point and Barton's Point, commanding the entrance of both the Thames and the Medway.

In 1807 it was captured by the French, who demolished the fortifications.

Ten years later it was rebuilt on an extended scale, and provided with fortifications by the elector John William.

So great was the strength of the fortifications that Mahommed II.

In 1810 it was captured by the Russians, who destroyed the fortifications.

Towards the end of the 17th century the fortifications were greatly strengthened by Coehoorn, and in 1725 they were further extended.

During the Crimean War its fortifications were destroyed (1855) by the Russians themselves.

With the exception of the dockyards and fortifications there are few objects of interest.

In 1803 it was assigned to the grand duke of Baden, who caused the fortifications to be razed.

Here another entrenched camp was made and from it the Moselle line (qv.) of forts darrit continues the barrier to Belfort (q.v.), another large entrenched camp, beyond which a series of fortifications at Montbliard and the Lomont range carries the line of defence to the Swiss border, which in turn is protected by works at Pontarlier and elsewhere.

Solomon greatly strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem, and was probably the builder of the line of defence, called by Josephus the first or old wall, which united the cities on the eastern and western hills.

Joash, king of Israel, captured the city from Amaziah, king of Judah, and destroyed part of the fortifications, but these were rebuilt by Uzziah, the son of Amaziah, who did much to restore the city to its original prosperity.

It is clear from his account that the lines of fortifications included both the eastern and western hills.

Herod again raised the city to the position of an important capital, restoring the fortifications, and rebuilding the Temple from its foundations.

Herod Agrippa, who succeeded to the kingdom, built a third or outer wall on the north side of Jerusalem in order to enclose and defend the buildings which had gradually been constructed outside the old fortifications.

The writings of Josephus give a good idea of the fortifications and buildings of Jerusalem at the time of the siege, and his accurate personal knowledge makes his account worthy of the most careful perusal.

After the capture, Titus ordered the Temple to be demolished and the fortifications to be levelled, with the exception of the three great towers at Herod's palace.

The walls were repaired by her orders, and the line of fortifications appears to have been extended on the south so as to include the pool of Siloam.

These fortifications are all the work of the Knights of St John.

The picturesque fortifications also by which the city is surrounded remain almost unaltered as they were in the 15th century.

The name is taken from the southward works or fortifications of London.

On the side next the sea the town is defended by a citadel and other fortifications, and the entrance to the harbour is protected by a lighthouse.

It contains models of the principal dockyards and fortifications of the British empire, naval models of all dates, and numerous specimens of weapons of war from the remotest times to the present day.

The ancient town, traces of the fortifications of which still exist, was situated near Lacco, at the N.W.

The position is strong, being protected by the two rivers mentioned, and the medieval fortifications, which are nearly 2 m.

In 1708 an act was passed for extending the fortifications of Chatham.

The hill is terraced with former native fortifications.

The harbour has an artificial breakwater and extensive modern fortifications (Fort Preble, on the Cape Shore; Fort Levett, on Cushing's Island; Fort Williams, at Portland Head; and Fort McKinley, on Great Diamond Island) among the best equipped in the United States.

The port is protected by fortifications.

To Offa is ascribed by Asser, in his life of Alfred, the great fortifications against the Welsh which is still known as "Offa's dike."

The extraordinary ruined fortifications found, and the knowledge of the higher art of war displayed by the Maoris, suggest (what is no doubt the fact) that there was a hard fight for them when they first arrived, but the greatest resistance must have been from the purer Papuan inhabitants, and not from the half-castes who were probably easily overwhelmed.

From 1725 onwards the fortifications were greatly strengthened.

He was a member of the International Prime Meridian and Time Conference in 1884, and of the Board of Fortifications in 1885-1886; was superintendent of the Naval Academy from 1886 to 1890; and was promoted to captain and served as delegate at the International Maritime Conference at Washington in 1889.

It was about this time that the town of Tuchkov, with which it was later (1830) incorporated, grew up outside of the fortifications.

Candia, the former capital and the see of the archbishop of Crete (pop. in 1900, 22,501), is officially styled Herakleion; it is surrounded by remarkable Venetian fortifications and possesses a museum with a valuable collection of objects found at Cnossus, Phaestus, the Idaean cave and elsewhere.

In Crete, in the later period, when the rulers could trust to the " wooden walls " of the Minoan navy, there is no parallel for the massive fortifications that we see at Tiryns or Mycenae.

Apt was at one time the chief town of the Vulgientes, a Gallic tribe; it was destroyed by the Romans about 125 B.C. and restored by Julius Caesar, who conferred upon it the title Apta Julia; it was much injured by the Lombards and the Saracens, but its fortifications were rebuilt by the counts of Provence.

The latter erected the present fortifications according to tradition with the assistance of a French engineer in his service, whom he afterwards hanged for not building the fort on a higher rock adjacent to it.

There is a U.S. garrison at Fort Monroe, one of the most important fortifications on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

The fort lies within the tract of 252 acres ceded, for coast defence purposes, to the Federal government by the state of Virginia in 1821, the survey for the original fortifications having been made in 1818, and the building begun in 1819.

The absence of fortifications both at Cnossus and Phaestus suggest that at this time Crete was internally peaceful and externally secure.

All the fortifications are obsolete.

In 1702 the fortifications were destroyed.

The situation of the Acropolis, dominating the surrounding plain and possessing easy communication with the sea, favoured the formation of a relatively powerful state - inferior, however, to Tiryns and Mycenae; the myths of Cecrops, Erechtheus and Theseus bear witness to the might of the princes who ruled in the Athenian citadel, and here we may naturally expect to find traces of massive fortifications resembling in some degree those of the great Argolid cities.

These early fortifications of the Acropolis, ascribed to the primitive non-hellenic Pelasgi, must be distinguished from the Pelasgicum or Pelargicum, which was in all prob ab i l i ty an encircling wall, built round the base of the g citadel and furnished with nine gates from which it derived the name of Enneapylon.