Sentence examples for system of fortifications from inspiring English sources

This ultramodern defensive fortification showed traces of the old circular system of fortifications, but its dominant feature was linear.

One of the most famous walls was the colossally unsuccessful system of fortifications overseen by the French war minister Andre Maginot in the 1930's.

At Wellington's bidding, a daunting system of fortifications – the so-called Lines of Torres Vedras – was secretly built to repel the French invaders.

He remained there for seven years, devoting his attention to the construction of an elaborate system of fortifications on the Rhine.

The limes as a system of fortifications was employed on other frontiers during the 2nd century ad and assumed various forms according to the differing geographical and military conditions.

After the Kutrigur Bulgar attack of 540, Justinian worked to extend a system of fortifications that ran in three zones through the Balkans and as far south as the Pass of Thermopylae.

In the early 7th century, perhaps as a result of the Cimmerian invasion, a new system of fortification was added.

He perfected a system of fortification suited to level terrain, such as that of the Netherlands, and he advocated a new strategy for citadel defense that involved the active deployment of troops instead of relying only on moats and ramparts.

Vauban's technical memoranda made his systems of fortifications the focus of military studies in Europe for more than a century.

His treatises De l'attaque et de la défense des places ("On Siege and Fortification"), written in 1705 06, were printed in 1737 and reprinted in 1829 (several interpretations of his systems of fortifications had been published in his lifetime).

The oldest systems of fortifications around the town were likely wooden palisades.