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Fortification is a defensive structure, like a castle or fort. It may have extra high and thick walls to keep out the enemy. It may also have weapons built in to these walls as well. The Alamo is a good example of a fortification, so are the castles built back in the times of medieval knights.
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When did Fortification of Dorchester Heights happen?
Fortification of Dorchester Heights happened in 1776.
What purpose does the ancient fortress of Masada serve for the modern Israeli military?
It serves as a general symbol of Jewish historical resistance to foreign invaders and occupiers. As such a symbol it may be a morale-booster, but Masada has no importance as a military base or strategic military fortification. Its position is not useful or desirable for use in modern warfare.
What was the French line of protective fortification?
nothing
A hilltop fortification?
A castle. A Martello Tower. A fort.
What is the fortification problem the Punic war?
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What has the author Antoine Deville written?
Antoine Deville has written: 'La fortification' -- subject(s): Fortification 'De la charge des govvernevrs des places' -- subject(s): Attack and defense (Military science), Fortification
What is a blockhouse?
A blockhouse is a sturdy military fortification, often made of concrete, complete with gunports.
What has the author Eva Papke written?
Eva Papke has written: 'Festung Dresden' -- subject(s): Fortification, History, Military, Military History, Military art and science
What is a sapper?
A military engineer who specializes in sapping and other field fortification activities. In addition, A military engineer who lays, detects, and disarms mines.
What is the name of a temporary military fortification built outside a larger one typically square or polygonal shape?
redoubt
What has the author Dennis De Lucca written?
Dennis De Lucca has written: 'Giovanni Battista Vertova' -- subject(s): Fortification, History, History, Military, Military History, Military relations
What has the author James R Hinds written?
James R. Hinds has written: 'Bulwark and Bastion' -- subject(s): Fortification, History, History, Military, Military History
Four ways that European nations had military build-ups included?
Military build-ups included increase of modern weapons; increased military budgets; build-up of navies, and fortification of boundaries.
What has the author Thomas E Alexander written?
Thomas E. Alexander has written: 'Faded glory' -- subject(s): Millitary History, Battlefields, Historic sites, Fortification, Military bases, Antiquities 'Faded glory' -- subject(s): Millitary History, Battlefields, Historic sites, Fortification, Military bases, Antiquities
What has the author Quentin Hughes written?
Quentin Hughes has written: 'Liverpool' -- subject(s): Guidebooks 'A chronology of events in fortification from 1800 to 1914' -- subject(s): Arms and armor, Dictionaries, Fortification, History, Military architecture, Military art and science 'Britain in the Mediterranean & the defence of her naval stations' -- subject(s): Fortification, Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Navy, History, Military policy, Navy-yards and naval stations 'Fortress: architecture and military history in Malta' -- subject(s): Fortification, History, Military History
What has the author H D Hutchinson written?
H. D. Hutchinson has written: 'Military sketching made easy' -- subject(s): Cartography, Military Maps 'The campaign in Tirah, 1897-1898' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Afridis, Defenses, History, Orakzais 'Field fortification' -- subject(s): Field Fortification
What has the author D H Mahan written?
D. H. Mahan has written: 'An elementary course of civil engineering for the use of cadets of the United States' military academy' -- subject(s): Civil engineering 'Plates to summary of the course of permanent fortification and of the attack and defence of permanent works' -- subject(s): Defensive (Military science), Fortification 'An elementary treatise on advanced-guard, out-post, and detachment service of troops, and the manner of posting and handling them in presence of an enemy' -- subject(s): Confederate States of America, Confederate States of America. Army, Guard duty, Handbooks, manuals, Tactics, United States, United States. Army 'An elementary course of civil engineering' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Civil engineering, Early works to 1850 'Summary of the course of permanent fortification and of the attack and defence of permanent works, for the use of the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy' -- subject(s): Fortification, Offensive (Military science) 'Industrial drawing' -- subject(s): Drawing instruments, Mechanical drawing 'Descriptive geometry' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Descriptive Geometry, Fortification, Stereotomy, Sterotomy 'An elementary course of permanent fortification' -- subject(s): Attack and defense (Military science), Fortification
