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Sentence Examples Crowned with the ruins of a Bronze Age hill fort and a mobile-phone mast, The Wrekin is the subject of much local mythology. During this time they visited a local market in Pisac in the Urabamba Valley and also Sacsayhuaman, an Inca hill fort above Cusco. The fort was garrisoned by 500 cavalrymen, initially by Asturians from northern Spain. A small fort was built out of the material of the stranded vessel and a crew left in charge of it to start a small settlement on the island. It is located on the site of an Iron Age hill fort discovered in 1995, excavated and studied by the local archaeological trust. The square central courtyard of the fort is bordered by a series of numerous small bombproof vaults for storing provisions and ammunition. Neither the Maori pa nor the Muscovite fort had an impact on forests similar to the Japanese castle-construction binge. I showed them our pile of scrap lumber and told them they could have whatever they wanted if they'd build a fort with it. A seawall comprising coquina faced with granite to the high water mark protected the eastern fort walls from the tides of Matanzas Bay. These vaulted casemates form the main walls of the fort and support the wide gundeck, the roof of the Castillo. He toured a 17th century fort in blazing heat as he made his first official engagement in Oman after a tour of India. He left the safety of the fort and ran towards and a fallen tree, for cover. I invented the story of this Roman woman who went to a fort south of Hadrian's Wall to join her husband. Settlers mined it for building stone, and the fort soon assumed the appearance of an ancient ruin. But then again, is it fair on the staff who live nearby to be expected to hold the fort when their colleagues can't make it in? The fact that he was chosen at centre fort Ireland's opening match down under highlights his all-round ability. Another example shows Macdonald on guard outside the fort that protects Canadian industry. The strategically located Gwalior fort was fair game, in its position as the gateway to central India, for all would-be potentates. After the conquest, the fort was probably reused as a garrison for Roman troops. In plan, the fort was of angular shape defined by five straight stretches of boundary. Show More Sentences Without her holding the fort at the office and doing all the paperwork, we'd never be able to do it all. During the 1850s and into the Civil War period the fort was a staging area for soldiers dispersed along overland trails and near settlements. The fort is situated at the southern end of Lake Champlain where the narrows lead into Lake George. On top of the brick fort there were two thousand lakhs of demon soldiers walking with their bows and arrows. The survey team rediscovered the earthworks, reviving the possibility that a 16th century fort may still exist on the Norfolk coast. Unfortunately, recoating the entire fort with lime, a historically accurate solution, would be prohibitively expensive at this time. Gaze up at the horizon and see the silhouette of the fort against the night sky. Such a fort was known as a rath and the area inside it was known as a lios. He then hallooed to the fort people, telling them to bury the carcass if they wished, and immediately went off with his party. In the fort section area, the delegates said the area represents sediments of the Bathonian age. The fort serves as a playground for the children, who hide in its ramparts and race along the walls. The fortlet lies to the west of the flagpole, with the fort extending to the west and south. Thousands of people have experienced mysterious lights and weird sounds above the ancient fort at Cley Hill during the past 40 years. This table indicates that shifting the vowel of fort to sound like the vowel of standard European French fard is normal in Quebecois. It was on this sleepy island that the Dutch settled in 1609 and built a fort to perpetuate their memory. One story accounts that Thomas refused to go to the fort until after his grain was shocked. The fort had a virtual open-door policy with the Mandans and Hidatsas the men neighbored with. The erstwhile British colonial rulers used the fort to try the freedom fighters after convicting them of treason. The woods around the fort buildings are a good place to spot several kinds of land crab, and migrant bird species nest in the nearby marsh. The fort also served as an important supply base and staging area for allied Indians in their 1739-40 campaign against the Chickasaws. Show More Sentences Faint remains of a Venetian fort lie crumbling on the hill above the old quarter. In 1754, Virginia dispatched an army under Lieutenant Colonel George Washington to construct a fort at the head of the Ohio River. Portchester Castle is the site of a third century Roman fort built to guard against Saxon raids. They walked through some tall trees and ended up by a small babbling river, there was a small fort there, and a tent pitched outside. The fort stood majestically on an elevated plateau along the western bank of the river. The ship fired a dozen shots at the ancient Spanish fort guarding the capital. After nearly half an hour, a large stone fort began to form in the horizon. The fort they made was a hodgepodge of triangular spaces and crazy roof angles. For centuries, control this fort and you could command the countryside for miles around. A veteran who has started games and isn't yet gumming his food, Matthews can hold down the fort as a fill-in. Just so you don't get bored while I'm gone, I've got a few requests for you to carry out while you're holding the fort. The impressive fort in the centre of the town presently houses the collectorate and other district office. Sue asks her colleague to hold the fort while she pops outside for a moment. The small lake at the base of the fort is mirror-like, in which a diverse group of birds admire their reflections. It's time to leave behind the fort that has stories of sieges, surrenders, trading and treaties to tell. At Benwell, the god Antenociticus had a small temple outside the Roman fort that was found to contain three votive altars set up by soldiers. A marble-faced monument inside the fort commemorates the completion of the conquest. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson, a huge fort in the Dry Tortugas, islands 70 miles off the Florida keys. The Wrekin is an important and well known small hill in Shropshire with the remains of an Iron Age hill fort at its summit. When her fort was under siege by the British, the rani escaped from the besieged fort in disguise, reminiscent of Shivaji's escape from Aurangzeb's imprisonment. Show More Sentences That summer, the two had built a fort together between their two houses. I finished my tour on the opposite side of Punda from the fort, where a flotilla of sailing boats was moored up on a small waterway off the main harbour. Audience members will be led through the tunnels of this abandoned military fort to encounter choreographed tableaux vivants that evoke each of the seven deadly sins. Today is the last day that I'm going to be holding the fort at work. A skeleton staff held the fort during the industrial action, which followed two months of inconclusive pay talks and a failure last week to negotiate a deal. As the strike continues, four heads of department are holding the fort. I just feel that I'm holding the fort until my father comes back. Shah Jahan would recover from his illness only to spend his last days as an old and decrepit man, imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb, in the fort in Agra. And to pull the tourists in, land has been earmarked for a number of visitor attractions, one of which could be a reconstruction of a fort from Braveheart. The Lighthouse itself was once a Cromwellian fort guarding the harbour. The time has come fort this nonsense to be jettisoned completely. There's a tableau, all wattle and daub, of a home in the 10th century after the Vikings had landed on the beach and built a fort called Skardaborg. In 1967 the principality of Sealand was declared on a military sea fort floating in what was then international waters. Antiquarian reports had recorded Roman tombstones from the area east of the fort and vicus, an attached civilian settlement, alongside the trans-Pennine road. It was a large wooden fort comparable to Disney's Magic Castle of today. Peter the Great led a military expedition against the Turkish fort of Azov that was a disaster. In the late third century the site was levelled, including the triumphal arch, and a larger Saxon Shore fort constructed in stone, the walls of which now dominate the site. The next day the whole raid force piled into a windowless conference room at fort Campbell. On November 4, the fort Hall Shoshone-Bannock tribes announced their opposition to Yellowstone delisting. And the area was steeped in history with a massive ring fort nearby. Show More Sentences Sometimes linked with Mars, he was honoured by various senior officers, by soldiers of all the legions, and by the cohort at the fort of Birdoswald. Little wonder that the Spanish colonists were ill-pleased at the coming of the new neighbors given that the fort was not finished, and the garrison made no resistance. Their task was to cut the cables anchoring a boom and antishipping net stretched across the river directly under the machine guns and cannons in a fort overlooking the river. She said everyplace we go we need that network, whether it is at a fort in the United States or in the Middle East, and we need that network to securely deliver information. The bunkers of the fort have been transformed into largest rock garden in The Netherlands, which is complemented by hill brooklets and a waterfall. However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England. Indeed, the occasional coin and piece of pottery on sites in these areas may indicate collection of objects by locals from abandoned fort sites rather than trade. The defence of a ruined fort in the flyblown town of San Antone, against a superior force of trained Mexican troops, seemed reckless in the extreme. He would have ridden into the fort with every hair in place, given a long flowery speech, and went off somewhere without so much as wrinkling his robes. The name Dumyat is thought to mean hill fort of the Maeatae. Long before its construction an Iron Age hill fort of the 6th century B.C. occupied the site, its double ditch can still be seen on the west of the castle. Some also spoke of their fears of a strange cave situated down the hill from the fort and within sight of the great rock that the Brigantes called the Table of the Lizards. Even as the fort took shape they attacked army and emigrant trains, stole livestock, and killed careless travelers who straggled too far from large groups. There is also a thatched roundhouse, ring fort and stone chamber. During the Roman conquest, the fort was sacked by Vespasian's legions. The rest of the day was spent birding with a guide in and around the fort looking for green avadavat, Indian pitta, jungle bush quail, thick billed flowerpecker etc. By making short tacks, however, the Theseus brought her guns to bear with such effect that the fort fired only an occasional gun when the ship was in stays. The cannons still battered the fort because they could feel the stone beneath them rumble in response to each hit, and then the loud explosion that came after. The fort supported a complement of 900 officers and men, who were barracked in the Caserne Pellegrin at the base of the fort and in the Fort Moyenne. The sea was just a half a mile south of the fort and some men made plans to bathe in its waters tomorrow, while others just wanted to drink and eat and remain by the fires. Show More Sentences If dinner parties aren't your speed and you'd rather ignore the cruel world by building a pillow fort in your living room and eating a wheel of Brie, just Shay Cheese. The Big bertha could fire a shell over almost eight miles that could reduce a fort to a smoking ruin. This is important because as long as your hero, leader, or at least one of the company troops stays alive, they can regroup near a town, or fort and be re-supplied. It was Kuna territory in 1600 when the Spaniards built a small fort at El Real to protect the river route to the gold mines in the Rio Tuira headwaters. These men have gotten word that the fort we left, Ridgeway, is manning down. So we have no worries about that. The Roman fort that replaced it was now the dim brown mark of an old archeological site on low hills off to the left. Le Tetris at the fort of Tourneville will, in 2013, be a place devoted to contemporary music. While in office, he plundered a Spanish fort on Tidore, poisoned the sultan of Ternate and committed atrocities against the local population. The fort was destroyed in 1560 by the Portuguese, who captured part of the Huguenots. In 1758, the British mounted an attack on New France by sea and took the French fort at Louisbourg. Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young. As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg. The Roman fort of Voreda occupied the site now known as Old Penrith, five miles north of the town. Back in England the trail passes the Roman fort at Chew Green, and briefly follows the Roman road of Dere Street. The fort was built as a star redoubt, a design favoured by Europe's military engineers, and thus it was sometimes referred to as the Star Fort. Across the world, a rusty World War II fort floats off the English coast. The British forces destroyed the fort of Kaya Fungo and raped women that sparked the fire of rebellion. Soon after Magellan's expedition, the Portuguese rushed to seize the surviving crew and built a fort in Ternate. During his tenure, he probably established the fort at Pumsaint in west Wales, largely to exploit the gold deposits at Dolaucothi. This included construction of a new fort protecting the approaches to Saint Helier, Fort Isabella Bellissima, or Elizabeth Castle. Show More Sentences The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. The group disembarked on August 17, 1585, and built a small fort on the island. A stabilised fragment of foundations of the final version of the Roman fort is visible in Castlefield. With the fort now in British control Wellesley was able to extend control southwards to the river Godavari. The first recorded settlement in what is now Newcastle was Pons Aelius, a Roman fort and bridge across the River Tyne. Wilfrid may have persuaded King Ecgberht of Kent in 669 to build a church in an abandoned Roman fort at Reculver. Let's build a fort out of chairs and blankets and make believe we are pirates. They would also make these barracks if the fort they had was going to stay there for good. Clayton carried out excavation at the fort at Cilurnum and at Housesteads, and he excavated some milecastles. This freed the seven technologists to either phlebotomize or hold down the fort at the lab. The naval headquarters of the Marathas, Shivaji built it with 32 turrets, while the wall of the fort stretches over a mile against the horizon. Artillery was coordinated with protective measures to ensure that one fort could support the next in line by bombarding it directly without harm. Though their location is left unspecified, the close dating of the fort at Elginhaugh in Midlothian makes it a possible candidate. In 1984, the site of an alleged Roman fort was identified at Easter Galcantray, south west of Cawdor, by aerial photography. If confirmed, it would be the most northerly known Roman fort in the British Isles. The legion later rebuilt the old wood and earth camp into a stone fort and also operated a lead mine there. Close to the fort they began erecting the huts of the main settlement, New Edinburgh, and clearing land to plant yams and maize. Drummond insisted there could be no discussion, and the fort must be rebuilt as a Spanish attack would surely come soon. After inadequate first attempts, 1,200 British troops led by William Dalrymple arrived on 16 October, and captured the fort on 20 October. A hill fort occupies the summit of Arthur's Seat and the subsidiary hill, Crow Hill. Show More Sentences Old Oswestry hill fort is also thought to have been inhabited by the Cornovii. Stone defences were added to the earthen ditch and rampart by AD 110 and the fort was occupied until the middle or end of that century. There was a deliberate link with Caernarfon's Roman past and the Roman fort of Segontium is nearby. Later some historians postulate that the Roman fort of Varae sat on the site of the Cathedral. In 1596, the fort was captured by the Spanish Netherlands until May 1598 when it was returned to the French following the Treaty of Vervins. By 1815 the fort had fallen into a ruined state and it wasn't until 1903 that it was sold and improved by its farmer tenants. It was named fort Royal, fort National, fort Imperial, before taking the name of the island on which it was built. The fortress of Matignon was built in 1559 as a quadrangular fort with a round tower, cellars, a bakery, and a cattle shed. Although the fort ceased to be a military site in 1906, during World War I it held some 300 German and Austrian prisoners of war. Under French command were the fort garrisons and some French and Belgian training units of limited military value. Aerial view of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's main fort in Taleh, the capital of his Dervish State. Lincoln called on all the states to send forces to recapture the fort and other federal properties. Cromwell's Castle is an artillery fort overlooking New Grimsby harbour on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. King Charles's Castle is a ruined artillery fort overlooking New Grimsby harbour on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. The earliest settlement in the Lymington area was around the Iron Age hill fort known today as Buckland Rings. These, seeing the boldness of our men, abandoned the fort and fled southwards to the shelter of a copse. Parts of the fort were subsequently demolished, and what remains has become part of Fort Victoria Country Park. During the First and Second World Wars the fort saw service as a landing point and for storage. The west fort in Cowes still survives to this day, albeit without the original Tudor towers, as Cowes Castle. The fort built in East Cowes is believed to have been similar but was abandoned c1546 and since destroyed. Show More Sentences Charles went to war, leading an army to Bordeaux, where he set up a fort at Fronsac. He returned in 775, marching through Westphalia and conquering the Saxon fort at Sigiburg. Then he marched through Westphalia, conquering the fort of Sigiburg, and crossed Engria, where he defeated the Saxons again. Both men presented a report advocating the Table valley as a fort and garden for the East India fleets. The Portuguese had tried setting up a fort in Anjediva, but it was captured and dismantled by forces on behalf of Bijapur. The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas and inland. On 1 October, a Cossack attempt to storm the Tatar fort at Mount Chyuvash was held off. On 23 October, the Cossacks attempted to storm the Tatar fort at Mount Chyuvash for a fourth time when the Tatars counterattacked. The Governor of Ernad built a fort at a place called Velapuram to safeguard his new interests. The fort most likely lent its name to Koyil Kotta the precursor to Kozhikode. The remainder of the fort and an accompanying church were completed soon afterward, despite resistance. In 1637 the fort was taken over by the Dutch, who made it the capital of the Dutch Gold Coast. After the treaty, the Hudson Bay Company rebuilt York Factory as a brick star fort at the mouth of the nearby Hayes River, its present location. Legislation was often passed calling for military garrisons at the fort but their de facto purpose was a trading post. Possessing the gift of prophecy, I will be able to apprehend that the quest fort he Grail Hallows is meant to postcede my working Sarum there. Caonabo and his warriors attacked the fort and Ojeda and his men defeated them. In 1517, the Portuguese built a fort at the port city of Colombo and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas. Afonso demanded the fort be handed over with its artillery, ammunition and horses, and the deserters to be given up. In early 1514, Afonso sent ambassadors to Gujarat's Sultan Muzaffar Shah II, ruler of Cambay, to seek permission to build a fort on Diu, India. Maintaining their independence, the Bandanese never allowed the Portuguese to build a fort or a permanent post in the islands. Show More Sentences On May 22, before building of the fort had started, the orang kaya called a meeting with the Dutch admiral, purportedly to negotiate prices. The Kayeli ethnicity with its own language was formed as a mixture of the newly arriving settlers and the native population of the fort area. The Portuguese were dispossessed by the Dutch in 1605, when Steven van der Hagen took over the fort without a single shot. Spanish forces captured the former Portuguese fort from the Ternatese in 1606, deported the Ternate Sultan and his entourage to Manila. In 1607 the Dutch came back in Ternate where with the help of Ternateans built a fort in Malayo. The Portuguese immediately started building a huge fort complex at Qalat Al Bahrain in order to control their new possession. Joseph at Niles, Michigan, where they captured the fort while the British were away. Within two weeks they had constructed their first fort and named their settlement Jamestown. Powhatan responded by insisting that the English either stay in their fort or leave Virginia. The fort at Jamestown, founded in 1607, remained the primary settlement of the colonists for several years. Another fort was also built on the cliff overlooking the settlement, for added protection. The fort was to defend river traffic against interlopers and to conduct fur trading operations with the natives. In 1617, Dutch colonists built a fort at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers where Albany now stands. In 1551 the wooden fort of Sviyazhsk was transported down the Volga from Uglich all the way to Kazan. In 1605, the Duyfken was in the fleet that recaptured the fort of Van Verre at Ambon in the Spice Islands, from the Portuguese. In 1594 the fort at Tara was built in part to control Kuchum who was in the area. The Cossacks established the fort of Albazin on the upper Amur, at the site of the former capital of the Solons. In 1685 the Manchus, now freed from their wars, invested the fort which surrendered on liberal terms. Once the ice on the Amur broke in the spring of 1652, Khabarov's people destroyed their fort and sailed away. The Dutch marched onto the beach where the fort was located and fully utilized the countermarching tactic. Show More Sentences In 1655, the English, led by Sir William Penn and General Robert Venables, took over the last Spanish fort in Jamaica. Each time the men fought bravely rushing out of the fort walls charging the enemy, but lost. The Saxons took the British fort in the 6th century and later used it as a stronghold against marauding Vikings. It does not seem to have been occupied by the Roman army at all, although it may simply be that the fort has not yet been located. The main residence at the fort was designed with two 11 foot wide fireplaces which were stocked with wood and coal from up river. American reinforcements arriving during the siege were defeated by the natives, but the fort held out. All the lights were extinguished in Baltimore the night of the attack, and the fort was bombarded for 25 hours. The Americans built Fort Bowyer, a log and earthenwork fort with 14 guns, on Mobile Point. A Roman fort existed about 2 miles south of the present day town centre, at a site known as Watercrook. Carrock Fell is also the site of an Iron Age hill fort which crowns the summit. The fort is oval shaped and is believed to have been built by the Celts and destroyed by the Romans in their conquest of northern England. He lets them plodge in the ford and he's made a little fort from rocks for them. This is possibly indicated from the reconstruction of the fort at Carlisle in 83 using oak timbers from further afield, rather than local alder. Originally Dartmouth's only wharf was Bayard's Cove, a relatively small area protected by a fort at the southern end of the town. The remains of a fort at Gallants Bower just outside the town are some of the best preserved remains of a Civil War defensive structure. The explorers built the fort in 1804 near the five Knife River villages of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in present-day North Dakota. A reconstructed part of the Roman fort of Mamucium is open to the public in Castlefield. The remains of a Roman fort were unearthed in the mid 18th century at Slack near Outlane, west of the town. At some point before the 7th century AD, the Gododdin, who were presumably descendants of the Votadini, built the hill fort of Din Eidyn or Etin. Little is known about the fort and civilian settlement in the period between the Roman departure from Britain and the Norman Conquest. Show More Sentences Raymond's force occupied an old promontory fort at Baginbun and plundered the surrounding countryside. The target was a fort that guarded a little used passage through the encompassing reefline. After the soldiers manning the fort were forced to abandon it, they spiked its guns and fled themselves before reinforcements could arrive. Later that month Mackay constructed Fort William on the site of an old fort built by Cromwell. In September 1780 he attempted to surrender the key American fort at West Point along the Hudson River to the British, but his plot was exposed. In AD 75, on the very edge of their empire, the Roman legions built a Roman fort at Caerleon to defend the river crossing. The fort was renamed James Fort and the town Jamestown, in honour of the Duke of York and heir apparent, later King James II of England. Peaceful British attempts to halt this fort construction were unsuccessful, and the French proceeded to build the fort they named Fort Duquesne. The fort may have been abandoned in the early 2nd century as the area had been subdued. The Burghal Hidage lists the construction of the Eorpenburnam fort, possibly Castle Toll. There are no surviving renderings of the Roanoke fort, but it was likely similar in structure to the one in Guayanilla Bay. The Romans built Portus Adurni, a fort, at nearby Portchester in the late third century. Solsbury Hill overlooking the current city was an Iron Age hill fort, and the adjacent Bathampton Camp may also have been one. Modern archaeologists follow him in rejecting the name, calling it instead Cadbury Castle hill fort. This circular feature, known as Belsar's Hill, is a potential site for a fort, built by William, from which to attack Ely and Hereward. An earlier cathedral was located, between 1075 and 1228, on the hill top near the ancient fort at Old Sarum. An example of this is Maiden Castle which, despite the name, is an Iron Age hill fort which had a very different origin and purpose. Hill fort defences are visible round the main massif of Arthur's Seat at Dunsapie Hill and above Samson's Ribs, in the latter cases certainly of prehistoric date. Francisco Pizarro was placed in charge of the fort and ordered to stay there for the fifty days that it would take for Ojeda to travel to and return from Santo Domingo. After waiting here in vain for the rest of the fleet, they sailed south to another bay, where they stayed for five months, building a fort and loading logwood. Show More Sentences The Roman bridge and fort at Newcastle upon Tyne was called Pons Aelius. A separate action on the fort town of Kars in eastern Anatolia led to a siege, and a Turkish attempt to reinforce the garrison was destroyed by a Russian fleet at Sinop. Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group. At the start of World War II the fort was used as a training battery for coastal gunners and it was equipped with torpedo tubes mounted on the pier. The Romans built Leucarum, a rectangular or trapezoidal fort at the mouth of the River Loughor, in the late 1st century AD to house a regiment of Roman auxiliary troops. The rear barracks blocks were demolished in 1969 to provide material for sea defences and Isle of Wight Council purchased what remained of the fort soon afterwards. This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, according to one theory, is resolvable into two Gaelic terms signifying a castle or fort in the copse or brushwood. Remains of an artillery fort involved in the siege were found, in 2006, in Edinburgh's Pilrig Park, and two gun emplacements can be seen on Leith Links. Today the fort is part of Fort Victoria Country Park which occupies 20 hectares of woodland and shore on the northwest coast of the Isle of Wight. After Mughal ruler Humayun had success against Bahadur, the latter signed another treaty with the Portuguese to confirm the provisions and allowed the fort to be built in Diu. However, the British suffered terribly due to disease, and were forced to abandon the fort on 29 November, and Spanish troops subsequently reoccupied the fort. There is a 2nd or 3rd millennium BC chambered cairn, an Iron Age promontory fort and the remains of other prehistoric settlement dating from the Bronze Age nearby. Dun Ringill is a ruined Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula, which was further fortified in the Middle Ages and may have become the seat of Clan MacKinnon. There are numerous Iron Age sites including the remains of Dun Ringill fort on Skye, which are similar in layout to that of both a broch and a complex Atlantic roundhouse. Nothing would do her but that the fort should be levelled, and she was ever grumbling and knawvshawling about it, if it wasn't about something else. The ground beneath us still rippled with earthworks from the Celtic hill fort that guarded the Menai Strait more than two and a half millennia ago. In late October, since 2009, there is rock music festival which has been at the fort of Tourneville since the moving of the Papa's Production association site there. An army of 7,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalry camped north of the town and sent a detachment to capture Rosslare fort at the mouth of the harbour. Cassius Dio describes Drusus establishing a fort in Chatti territory on the Rhine in 11 BC, and that in 10 BC they moved out of an area where the Romans had permitted them. Remnants of the fort still exist under the current pavillon. Show More Sentences The land was used in the 18th century as a gun battery, and its eastern edge was the site of the Royalist fort constructed by Charles I known as Pill Fort. The town of Mogontiacum grew up between the fort and the river. In the early hours of 10 May, DFS 230 gliders landed on top of the fort and unloaded assault teams that disabled the main gun cupolas with hollow charges. Above the town, on the mountain side, where the houses commence, there is another fort on a hill, the greater part of which is hewn out of the rock. In 1632, the Virginia legislature voted to build a fort to link Jamestown and the York River settlement of Chiskiack and protect the colony from Indian attacks. Castle Hill, a major landmark, was the site of an Iron Age hill fort. The Dutch West Indian Company built a fort in 1616 on the Essequibo River. A road over the pass was built by the Romans around AD 110 to link the coastal fort and baths at Ravenglass with their garrisons at Ambleside and Kendal. Jaroo kills Santana when he discovers the gold. Chavez and his men decide to join the Juaristas, while the Apaches leave the fort after finding Santana's body. Deep passages and tunnels now connected the blockhouses and firing points in the ditch to the fort proper, with magazines and machine rooms deep under the surface. She toured the famed museum and fort at old Inner City of Baku, which showcase Collectibles and artifacts that reflect the richness of the city and its history. The foundations of Caer Gybi as well as a fort at Holyhead are Roman, and the present road from Holyhead to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll was originally a Roman road. A relatively small number of defenders in a fort impervious to primitive weaponry could hold out against high odds, the only constraint being the supply of ammunition. A popular legend in Maharashtra tells the tale of how a common Indian monitor, with ropes attached, was used to scale the walls of the fort in the Battle of Sinhagad. Excavation at Lancaster, however, has provided us with a terminus post quem of 326 for the construction of the late fort which appears to have at least one multangular tower. The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from. On 22 November, Columbus returned to Hispaniola, where he intended to visit the fort of La Navidad, built during his first voyage and located on the northern coast of Haiti. Lunt Roman Fort is the only reconstructed wooden fort in Britain. Columbus found the fort in ruins, destroyed by the native Taino people. The tiny, horseshoe island, built with a military fort in mind, now harbours hundreds of sea creatures including leatherjacket, Morwong, blue devilfish and stingarees. Show More Sentences Beauregard to attack the fort before a relief expedition could arrive. Fearing another Spanish invasion, in May 1593 Queen Elizabeth I ordered the construction of a fort and two sconces as a lookout for any intruder ships. The Manchus burned the fort and withdrew, but did not destroy the crops. The islands were then attacked by a Parliamentary force led by Sir Robert Blake in 1651, who landed on Tresco but bypassed the fort as he took the island. It contains the Lancaster Tower, a name often given to the fort itself. The Jutes may have taken over the fort by the late 7th century. There are traces of a Roman fort underneath the later buildings. Earlier fortified structures, such as the Saxon burh or the Iron Age hill fort, provided public or communal defences, as did medieval town or city walls. Carisbrooke Priory and the fort of Carisbrooke Castle were then founded. Examples of earthworks and other artifacts from the Bronze and Iron Ages can be seen in the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes and the Romans built a fort at Bainbridge. Said bin Sultan of Muscat capitalised on this opportunity and raided the Wahhabi garrisons on the eastern coast, setting fire to the fort in Zubarah. One of these groves, called the Sultanpet Tope, was intersected by deep ditches, watered from a channel running in an easterly direction about a mile from the fort. He excused himself from his nephew, ran a comb through his hair, buttoned up a clean shirt, and told his eight-year-old son to man the fort while he was gone. A large, genial woman, she ruled the fort kitchen and its Indian helpers ironhandedly. Within her own domain, no one trifled with Charlotte Green. There are also remains of an Iron Age blockhouse fort at Burgi Geos. The British blew up the fort when they evacuated six months later after suffering many deaths due to disease and Nelson was praised for his efforts. In the letter, he notes that he ordered the erection of the fort of La Navidad on the island of Hispaniola, leaving behind some Spanish colonists and traders. The besieged soldiers, using shaving mirrors, heliographed messages to their comrades based at Fort Pearson near the mouth of the river. The Hotel Fort Garry is serving as headquarters, if you will, for Prairie Music Week, so all the mucky-mucks are sitting in the lounge. On May 7, 1827, he selected the present site of Fort Leavenworth as his cantonment. Find more words! 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