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How to use circumvallation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word circumvallation? Here are some examples.

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Edinburgh had been walled in 1450, and so narrow was the circumvallation that the Cowgate was beyond the circle of towers.
At the corner of the circumvallation, on the north-west, there was a fish-pond.
This circumvallation had begun modestly enough as a yard-high rampart with stockade and ditch, but successive developments raised it to well over 30 feet.
The Portuguese used it to cover the construction of the circumvallation line to the Guadiana.
This scenario replicates the final Gallic attack, mostly against the open end of the circumvallation in the northwest.
Both lie outside the circumvallation, whereas the smaller ones are more closely associated with that long earthwork.
The Athenians cut off Syracuse with two forts, and began a twin circumvallation, but left their northern walls incomplete, which proved disastrous.
Various outlying forts were also strengthened with the aim of obstructing the Portuguese works and forcing them to build a larger circumvallation line.
The Portuguese general, convinced of the impossibility of taking Badajoz by assault, changed his strategy and began a circumvallation of the town, in order to try to isolate it completely.
He has guided through the most important routes of Aconcagua mountain, taking part in the Expedition of circumvallation to Aconcagua mountain during the commemoration of the first ascent.
Shein constructed lines of circumvallation around the fortress.
The continued Spanish occupation of the Fort of San Miguel was preventing the completion of the circumvallation line, so its capture was a priority to Vasconcellos.
They also tried to occupy Cerro del Viento, a hill near Vado del Moro, but were repelled by the Spanish garrison that was there and had to build the circumvallation line behind it.
The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.
Examples from Classical Literature
My theory is also supported by the description of Titus' wall of circumvallation.
The Barbarians had no need of a circumvallation on the side of Africa, for it was theirs.
The men arrived, and began to draw lines of circumvallation round the painter's retreat.
He raised by moonlight a circumvallation of trees, earth, and brush-wood, around the governor's outworks.
He has drawn his lines of circumvallation round me that I may not escape.
His artillery was of no use, nor his lines of circumvallation.
In winter, within the tribal circumvallation, woman presided, both as cook and as priestess fire, at the family hearth and altar.
She had enclosed it within too strong a line of circumvallation.
Willinghegen is a small place one mile outside the circumvallation.
Then came the news of the circumvallation, and with it alarm.
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