Sentence examples for off the fortress from inspiring English sources
Shortly after noon the German armoured cars had penetrated thirty kilometres more to the west and made contact with the southern Moerdijk bridgehead, cutting off the Fortress Holland from the Allied main force; at 16:45 they had reached the bridges themselves.
I'd heard of the fortress company.
Built in three weeks on a 37-metre high cliff face in the 11th century to head off a Venetian attack, the fortress has 12-metre thick walls and withstood even the most committed of aggressors.
From the highest level it's easy to see how sharp-eyed Spanish gunners could blast enemy ships down in the bay, and in another direction pick off soldiers trying to attack the fortress on foot.
Fire burns the roof off the family fortress.
But the fortress crashed shortly after take-off.
I somehow find myself a bit off track outside the medina by the fortress.
Similarly, Puget, the Bastille's lieutenant de roi, submitted reports in 1788 suggesting that the authorities close the prison, demolish the fortress and sell the real estate off.
The fortress of 1769 survives.
