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1 The great fortresses on the border must hereafter contain only nominal garrisons.
2 Mordor was desolate, but was watched over by great fortresses that guarded the passes.
3 Germany's first move against Russia came from the great fortresses along the Oder and Vistula.
4 To rush an army into France over this rough country and between these great fortresses was impossible.
5 Namur, situated at the confluence of the Sambre and the Meuse, was one of the great fortresses of Europe.
6 There are two great fortresses on the River San, Jaroslav and Przemysl, both of them controlling important railroad routes.
7 The three great fortresses , Alexandria, Machaerus, and Hyrcanium, were thrown down, and the Jewish state was divided into five districts.
8 The prince told us that the Schloss of his race had for centuries been one of the great fortresses of Christendom.
9 The men went to their regiments; the women to Berlin, and to the great fortresses that lay nearer than Berlin-Koenigsberg, Danzig, Thorn.
10 Ironwall had been the first of the great fortresses in the area to be built, right after Vahlia had split into three territories.
11 Back from the prisons where they had been confined and the great fortresses they had held until the Emperor's abdication had come the veterans.
12 3 There were three great fortresses which guarded the border into Spain: Almeida, Badajoz and Ciudad Rodriguez.
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