Sentence examples for powerful fortress from inspiring English sources

But the Kremlin is a powerful fortress.

The French retained Cape Breton Island, where they built the powerful fortress of Louisbourg, which the English attempted to counter by the founding in 1749 of Halifax as the new administrative and military centre of their colony.

The Arabs were the people who did most to develop the Aleppo citadel as a powerful fortress and turn it into one of the most impressive monuments of military architecture in the Middle East.

Oxford Castle was a powerful fortress and, rather than storming it, Stephen decided to settle down for a long siege.

The garrison of Badajoz, ably commanded by General Rafael Menacho, initially put up strong resistance and by 3 March the French had made little progress against the powerful fortress.

Oxford Castle, however, was a powerful fortress and, rather than storming it, Stephen had to settle down for a long siege, albeit secure in the knowledge that Matilda was now surrounded.

Sesostris III, about 1826 bce, tried to occupy Sai Island but was compelled to fall back to Semna, where he built a chain of powerful fortresses.

He became the greatest landowner in the north after the king and the princes of the royal house, and the owner of one of its most powerful fortresses.

It is known that the Sargonid dynasty had a hand in the reconstruction and extension of many Sumerian temples (for example, at Nippur) and that they built palaces with practical amenities (Tall al-Asmar) and powerful fortresses on their lines of imperial communication (Tell Brak, or Tall Birāk al-Taḥtānī, Syria).

But by marching through Belgium with a strong right wing (the Schlieffen plan), the Germans circumvented the powerful French fortresses.

By the 14th century, a number of motte and bailey castles had been converted into powerful stone fortresses.