Sentence examples for fortified post from inspiring English sources

On a recent spring day, Ali Dakour, 54, a vegetable seller, was outside his shop counting the Hezbollah artillery hits on the heavily fortified post 400 yards up a steep rocky, hillside.

It originated in 1687 as a Portuguese fortified post and slave-trading centre.

Inside the fortified post was an Israeli soldier, his face appearing every few minutes through a small opening in the concrete.

On Dec. 7, 1818, he sailed from Calcutta, bearing Hastings' qualified authority to establish a fortified post eastward of the Straits of Malacca and so placed as to wedge open the gateway to the China seas.

During the same summer, after the reduction of Lesbos, the Athenians under Nicias, son of Niceratus, made an expedition against the island of Minoa, which lies off Megara and was used as a fortified post by the Megarians, who had built a tower upon it.

He then orchestrated a campaign to capture Island No. 10, a strongly fortified post garrisoned by 12,000 men and 58 guns.

By March 1895 the Japanese had successfully invaded Shandong province and Manchuria and had fortified posts that commanded the sea approaches to Beijing.

His own guerrilla force, he wrote in his memoir, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," had "a sophisticated alien enemy, disposed as an army of occupation in an area greater than could be dominated effectively from fortified posts.

The Turkmen fought off initial attacks, building trenches and fortified posts across Amerli to defend their positions.

The city's name means "fortified place".

Though the castle now looks a powerful symbol of iniquity, in its day it was a lightly fortified trading post which could easily have been tipped into the sea.