10 sentences with 'fort'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fort and other words derived from it.
• « Twelve years after settling in Britain, in 43 BC, Aulus Plautius erected a fort in what was a small British settlement on the banks of the Thames, the English name for the Thames. »
• « On 24 March 1806, Captain Santiago de Liniers, head of the fort at the inlet of Barragán (next to the present-day city of La Plata, Argentina), warned the viceroy that an English fleet was off the coast of Quilmes. »
• « Beresford entered the city of Buenos Aires on the afternoon of 27 June and took the fort without fighting. He immediately got most of the officials to swear an oath of allegiance to the British monarch and succeeded in seizing the royal treasury in the city of Luján, so that the gold did not reach its destination. »
• « Plans were soon drawn up to restore the city's freedom, and there was no shortage of those who proposed digging a tunnel to the fort, placing an explosive device there and blowing it up with as many Englishmen as there were. »
• « Once Buenos Aires had been dominated by the English invaders, Don Santiago de Liniers, commander of the fort of Barragán, arrived in the city on 29 June 1806. »
• « Although the Portuguese initially used the fort mainly for the gold trade, by the 16th century they had changed their focus. »
• « In 1754, the French and their native allies forced Washington to surrender at Fort Necessity, a fort hastily built after his attack on the French. »
• « The French, aided by the Potawotomis, Ottawas, Shawnees and Delawares, ambushed the fifteen hundred British soldiers and Virginia militia who marched on the fort. »
• « Led by the Sons of Liberty, Bostonians rioted against customs officials, attacking the customs house and chasing the officers, who ran to the safety of Castle William, a British fort on a harbour island off Boston. »