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Meanings of strong fortification in English

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Usage of strong fortification in English
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Above the Exchange is Petersburg Island, which is covered with a strong fortification, called the Citadel.
Fred Markham in Russia; Or, The Boy Travellers in the Land of th...
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The Lord will bless you abundantly; and our prayers will be like a strong fortification round you all the days of your life.
Major Barbara
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The palisaded enceinte was repaired with new stakes, and made higher in many places, so that it really formed a very strong fortification.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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See, get all the rice and coffee bags to be found, and fill them with earth; we may soon build up a tolerably strong fortification.
Old Jack
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This has been a very strong fortification, protecting and overlooking the whole of the Abyan from Jebel Goddam beyond Shukra to Jebel Shemshan at Aden.
Southern Arabia
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On the island of Cos alone we saw a neat town, with strong fortifications.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
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Looks like it's shaping into an assault on strong fortifications.
Stonewielder
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Rhodes is surrounded with three rows of strong fortifications.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
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He commenced strong fortifications around his camp; and, forbidding assault on the Moors, defied it against himself.
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II.
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It had been held by the Union forces, only by dint of large numbers and strong fortifications.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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Both are well secured by strong fortifications.
Elements of Military Art and Science / Or, Course Of Instruction...
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One side of the city was protected by the sea; the other by the strong fortifications of Monjuich.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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They then learned that Rosas had thrown up strong fortifications about three miles from where they then lay.
The Three Lieutenants
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The harbor is little better than an open roadstead, and is defended by strong fortifications overhanging the city.
Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawse...
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We were entrenched behind strong fortifications.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
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Austria had prepared herself by building strong fortifications in which were employed the latest technical improvements in defensive warfare.
History of the World War, Vol. 3
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