Sentence examples for blockhouse from inspiring English sources

It is now occupied by the Rock Island Arsenal, which includes a military museum, the Colonel Davenport House (1833), and a replica of a Fort Armstrong blockhouse.

The latter was destroyed by American revolutionaries in 1775 but was replaced by Fort Howe (1777 78), whose blockhouse has since been reconstructed.

The fort was abandoned in 1889; its blockhouse and guardhouse are preserved in the city's Frontier Historical Park.

Hidden in a gully lies the lodge itself, a handsome blockhouse modelled on a caravanserai.

As a trustee and a major benefactor of the Whitney Museum (which doesn't collect European art), Lauder knew that the Whitney was going to leave the landmark modernist blockhouse that Marcel Breuer had designed for it nearly fifty years earlier and move to a new building downtown (a plan that he initially opposed).

And the one before that in a Kentucky blockhouse with Indians around it.

Included were massive blockhouses with disappearing guns, newsreels of which the Germans sent out through neutral sources in an effort to awe their adversaries, but the numbers of big blockhouses actually were few.

Kitchener responded with barbed wire and blockhouses along the railways, but when these failed he retaliated with a scorched-earth policy.

Convinced of Algeria's possibilities, he proposed that settlers be brought there from all countries, that cotton be grown there, and that the Mitidja Plain be drained and protected by a network of blockhouses.

In the fifth campaign Chiang mustered about 700,000 troops and established a series of cement blockhouses around the communist positions.

Although designed and built for military purposes and protected by six blockhouses, the primary use of the Rideau Canal was at first commercial.