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

To love a Scorpio, then, is to fiercely protect their softness with the same shadowy ardor that they use to construct their inner adamantine fortresses.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

Priests carried tabots into one of the fortresses in Gondar, where they will be kept until the end of the festivities.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2024

Our ancestors and those who were considered wise used to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia by factions and Pisa by fortresses.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli