fortresses

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French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River, separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

This means researchers simply don't know what is buried in the sites, which are mainly mounds, fortresses, early roadside inns known as caravanserais and canal systems.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024

These sites included large Roman cities, military fortresses, and small rural towns.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

I yanked the laces out of both, so the floppy tongues fell forward like drawbridges coming down out of beat-up, leather, no-named fortresses.

From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds