Sentence examples for chain of forts from inspiring English sources

Fort Scott became one of a chain of forts intended to protect the new settlers from the Plains Indians, as well as to protect the Indians from the settlers' encroachment.

The most important of the chain of forts along the Rideau Canal.

The Nubians resisted the Egyptian occupation, which was maintained only by a chain of forts erected along the Nile.

Laying claim to the whole Ohio Valley, they built a new chain of forts from what is now Erie, Pennsylvania (Presque-Isle), to the Allegheny River.

Mursilis II (reigned c. 1346 c. 1320 bc) had to build a chain of forts across the northern Hittite border to defend against continual Kaskan raids.

Having passed by night through a gap in the chain of forts, O'Connor's forces stormed three of the Italian camps, while the 7th Armoured Division was already cutting the Italians' road of retreat along the coast to the west.

This led the Romans to build a small fort there at the time of their conquest of Britain in 43 AD, and, starting late in the 2nd century, they built a larger fort, or castrum, called Regulbium, which later became one of the chain of Saxon Shore forts.

Around Liège was a 46km chain of 12 forts, built in the late-1880s: six large strongholds (Barchon, Fléron, Boncelles, Flémalle, Loncin and Pontisse) interspersed with six smaller ones (Evegnée, Liers, Lantin, Hollogne, Embourg and Chaudfontaine), each about 4km from the next.

He also advocated the establishment of a chain of American forts from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to the Pacific.

A chain of missions and small forts extending northward from Mexico along the Santa Cruz River valley was established by 1700.

Instead, they detail troop movements and expenses for provisions, indicating that people throughout the military chain of command down to the fort's deputy quartermaster were able to write.