Sentence examples for Main fortress from inspiring English sources
Mount Independence, the site of New England's main fortress in the early years of the American Revolution, is silent again.
Until its capture last month, Falluja, 40 miles northwest of here, served as the insurgents' main fortress.
After isolating the fort by a double ditch, the French undermined and collapsed part of the châtelet and penetrated the main fortress through the latrines.
The main fortress, the Ark, was heavily damaged by fire in 1920 as Bolsheviks were wresting control of Bukhara from the last emir, and what stands today is an imposing but still ersatz version.
As the main fortress between Constantinople and the Danube River, it controlled the principal invasion road through the Balkan Mountains, assured Ottoman retention of their European conquests, and facilitated further expansion to the north.
While So Yoshitomo attacked the main fortress of Busan, Konishi Yukinaga launched a simultaneous assault on a naval fort near the harbor, which was defended by some 6,000 Koreans.
In the 26th and later Egyptian dynasties, Pelusium was the main frontier fortress against Palestine and was a customs post for Asiatic goods.
On the other side, Mr Bush's attempts to woo female voters claiming to be a "peace president", championing education reform and trying to bribe the older dears with prescription-drug benefits—are not going that well; so he is all the keener to hold his main electoral fortress.
Even though Skanderbeg himself had died in January 1468, the war would drag on until 1478 and later in the same year the main Albanian fortress at Krujë fell, finally effecting the annexation of Skanderbeg's Albania by the Ottoman Empire.
Tanis declined with Shabaka's shift of the royal capital to Memphis and with the rise of Pelusium, 20 miles (32 km) to the east, as the main eastern-frontier fortress and trade centre.
Despite numerous demoralizing attacks by IDS and its massive bomber, the Great Owl, the battalion survives and eventually pursues Caulder to his main laboratory and fortress, The Nest.
