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Example sentences for: fortress

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Building of the original fortress began in 1719, six years after the Treaty of Utrecht had left the French only Cape Breton Island.
A massive fortress was built overlooking the Temple Mount, which Herod named “Antonia” in honor of his Roman friend and benefactor, Mark Antony.
Fort Warren, a 19th-century star-shaped fortress in which Confederate prisoners were incarcerated during the Civil War occupies most of the island.
At the very moment The Empty Fortress was clinching his reputation as a nonauthoritarian liberator of autistic children--in other words, during the Vietnam era--a ranting Bettelheim seized the podium as an authoritarian castigator of rebellious youth.
The airport outside the steel town of Sydney is the most convenient gateway for both the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park to the east and the Cabot Trail to the west, leading to Cape Breton Highlands National Park.