Sentence examples for makeshift fort from inspiring English sources

He told his men that they were free to cross over the line to join him in a fight to the death or to leave the makeshift fort.

Among them was the "Great Swamp Fight," in December, 1675, in which English forces killed thousands of Narragansett women, children, and old men hiding in a makeshift fort constructed for their protection in the middle of a Rhode Island swamp.

During their daring exploration of the lands beyond the Great Lake in 1659, they lingered in the Chequamegon area, erecting a makeshift fort at the head of the bay somewhere near the present-day town of Ashland.

That last time, Mr. Davis, who was 10, was playing with the Riverside Rangers, his school buddies in Greenwich, Conn., when a rival faction challenged them viciously over a makeshift fort.

The Confederate defenses were roughly centered on a brick yard converted into a makeshift fort.

In 1825 or 1826, Mexican officials constructed a makeshift fort, named Lipantitlán after the Lipan Apaches, at the campsite.

The two-floor exhibit starts at a makeshift Fort Kearny, a gathering point for pioneers before they continued their journeys into the uncharted West, and ends at a fake rail-car diner that is part of an exhibit about the Lincoln Highway, the country's first transcontinental highway.

Andrea Barbosa da Silva, 29, takes refuge from the sun under a makeshift wooden fort, coming out to sell water and juices.

These intriguing makeshift structures most resemble a fort that a child might build from whatever is at hand.

Make a fort or a makeshift changing room out of a sheet and a hula hoop.

Or hear about grown men building the adult equivalent of a pillow fort to fashion a makeshift desk on a hotel bed.