Fortresses [noun]

Stirling surrendered on July 20, the last of the Scottish fortresses that held out against Edward.

From the first he saw that the one and only way to wear down the Spanish resistance was to capture the fortresses.

Many of the hills are crowned with ruined fortresses and occasionally an imposing modern summer residence is to be seen.

Much can be seen of that chain of damaged fortresses, and the details of most of them are now known.

Richmond Castle at one time was one of the most formidable and strongly situated of the northern fortresses.

As a military man he knew well how zealously the secrets of all fortresses are guarded.

The Bank was one of his fortresses; and he trusted that a new India House would be the other.

At every one of those fortresses the governors and engineers had orders to pay every attention to the distinguished stranger.

Their fortresses lay in the north and west, while the Saxons attacked the east and south.

Antiochus, the son of Demetrius, obliged him to shut himself up in one of the fortresses, and there he killed himself.