Sentence examples for a small fortification from inspiring English sources

So fewer than 50 men, known as the Davis Guards, were left to guard a small fortification at the pass.

In the Middle Ages the name of the city was Culus, as attested in documents of 1173, but by the beginning of the 15th century it was known as Cluj (probably from Castrum Clus, a small fortification dating from 1213).

In 1808, while Sullivan was governor, a small fortification now known as Fort Sullivan was constructed in Calais, Maine.

It occurred at a small fortification or set of trenches where some Englishmen rallied and seriously wounded Eustace of Boulogne before being destroyed by Duke William.

This project revealed the construction of a number of small fortifications around the fortress of San Luís Gonzaga (Valença, Portugal), most of which disappeared after the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668.

The "Eastern Wei" wall described in the first article was a small stretch of fortifications incorporated into a much lengthier Northern Qi construction.

Drogo settled 10 knights on lands near the castle in an arrangement known as a castlery or castle-guard system, under which the knights helped to guard the castle in return for their estates, and one of them probably built his own smaller fortification at nearby Aldborough.

In the fall of 1864, the 29th served uneventful duty along the Petersburg siege lines and was eventually, in November, assigned a garrison post in Battery 11, a small, unfinished ravelin (detached fortification) outside of Fort Stedman.

Victorian historians, however, believed the castle to date back further to the pre-Norman conquest days of King Canute, and the site may have been among a small number of Saxon fortifications along the Welsh border.

Near the Rann of Kachchh, Surkotada is a small settlement with an oblong fortification wall of stone.

Thus, from the late 1930's, the architectural model for the kibbutz was "homa umigdal," or "wall and tower," a small enclosed settlement that combined "fortification and observation" and served to "perpetuate the ghetto mentality," Sharon Rotbard, an architect and university lecturer, writes in the catalog.