Edinburgh had been walled in 1450, and so narrow was the circumvallation that the Cowgate was beyond the circle of towers. |
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At the corner of the circumvallation, on the north-west, there was a fish-pond. |
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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. |
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The Portuguese used it to cover the construction of the circumvallation line to the Guadiana. |
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This scenario replicates the final Gallic attack, mostly against the open end of the circumvallation in the northwest. |
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Both lie outside the circumvallation, whereas the smaller ones are more closely associated with that long earthwork. |
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The Athenians cut off Syracuse with two forts, and began a twin circumvallation, but left their northern walls incomplete, which proved disastrous. |
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Various outlying forts were also strengthened with the aim of obstructing the Portuguese works and forcing them to build a larger circumvallation line. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Shein constructed lines of circumvallation around the fortress. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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