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Definition of Fortresses
1. fortress [v] - See also: fortress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortresses
Literary usage of Fortresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1875)
"Yearly Inspection of fortresses. 6. Special Inspection Commission for the fortresses
of Ulm, Rastadt, and Landau; and for the Fortress of ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The contingent of troops occupying these fortresses was to number, in time of
peace, 35000 men, of whom three-fifths were to be furnished by Austria and ..."
3. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"Justinian also busied himself in building a continuous chain of fortresses along
all the frontiers, as he had done in Africa. Rome had formerly been forced ..."
4. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"Thus the Christian fortresses were menaced on every point; and, while the lines
of the besiegers cut off all communication on the land-side, ..."
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