Each of the bases raided had been among the last regime strongholds in their respective parts of the country and had in effect become fortresses in hostile territory.
A side effect of the "fortress Australia" approach, though, is that virtually all Australian staff at the embassy from ambassador down will live in the complex, in a gated Australian community, a far cry from the days when diplomats were scattered in bungalows and apartments around town.
However, Wladimir is able to pass on a message, and, while Julian distracts Pascha, Steipann arranges for the soldiers to slip into the fortress, effecting a rescue.
The wall is pink — the effect is of a Lego fortress — but maybe there's a long-term plan to let ivy grow and cover it.
"7 Women" is, in effect, a Western in the fortress-under-siege genre, set in the Far East in China, in 1935, in a Christian mission run by women.
"7 Women" is, in effect, a Western in the fortress-under-siege genre, set in the Far East — in China, in 1935, in a Christian mission run by women.
Before his execution, however, he died in the Peter-Paul Fortress from shock and the effects of torture.
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.
Many said the effect was garrison-like and called the campus "Fortress Illini".
The effect was an early success in converting a fortress into a major dwelling, without damaging its defensive arrangements, and influenced the later castle conversion at Berkeley.
