7 sentences with 'fortress'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fortress and other words derived from it.
• « In 1352 they seized control of a key fortress near Constantinople, and from there launched an impressive series of invasions into Greece and the Balkans. In the process, Byzantium was reduced to a pitiful fragment of its former glory, clinging to the city of Constantinople and its hinterlands, but otherwise surrounded by Ottoman territories. »
• « Masada is a gigantic rocky fortress rising to the west of the Dead Sea, where in AD 73 a battle was fought against the Romans, but the entire Holy Land fell to the Romans. Finds reveal that Herod built the great fortress. »
• « Another famous Palestinian fortress, the one Herod had built as a royal palace and mausoleum, also rose from the ruins a few kilometres from Bethlehem, where Jesus was born and the Magi came by starlight. »
• « The fortress is composed of sumptuous palaces built of marble and equipped with irrigation systems. It is circular in shape, with a double wall encircling it. »
• « Inside the fortress there is a large garden surrounded by a peristyle; it was equipped with thermal baths with enclosures for hot, warm and cold baths, and had elegant mosaics and stucco decorations in the Pompeian style. »
• « In 1745, the British seized the massive French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. »
• « However, three years later, under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Britain ceded control of the fortress to the French. Once again, the war resulted in an incomplete victory for both Britain and France. »