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Example sentences for: citadel

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The French built the starshaped Citadel in 1750 to resist the British.
For a good panoramic view of Halifax and a sense of its important military history, make your way around the grassy slopes leading to the star-shaped Citadel, from which a cannon-shot has boomed across the town each day at noon since the 1850s.
South of the market region, a thirty-minute walk or ten-minute taxi ride, is The Citadel (Al-Qal’a), a massive fortification built on high ground in the early 13th century to protect the city from Crusaders.
He catapulted the heads of dead Arabs into the city to dishearten those still defending the citadel.
The ﬁnest place to enjoy the views — reminiscent of the best of the Rhine — are at the Citadel, high on a hill above the ruins of the old palace of Visegrád (which means “high castle” in Slavic).