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Example sentences for: fortress

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A massive fortress was built overlooking the Temple Mount, which Herod named “Antonia” in honor of his Roman friend and benefactor, Mark Antony.
The well-restored fortress, Forte da Ponte da Bandeira, once guarded the entrance to the harbor in the 17th century.
Attracted by the natural harbor, one of the world’s largest, the British established the town in the mid-18th century as a naval garrison and shipyard to counter the French fortress of Louisbourg farther north on Cape Breton (see page 130).
The Hudson’s Bay Company’s massive stone fortress surrendered to the French navigator La Pérouse in 1782, without firing a single shot.
The victorious Christian army of Ferdinand and Isabella celebrated mass here when the fortress finally fell into their hands in 1487.