What is "fortifications"

Usage examples of "fortifications".

Caesar took the hill between midnight and dawn, put Gaius Fabius and two legions in a strongly fortified camp there, and extended its fortifications to join those of his main camp by means of a great double ditch.

The Briton horde, all on foot, bared naked chests to the defenders atop the fortifications and were picked off by javelins like so many targets lined up on a drill field.

Elsewhere they rose out of marsh too soggy and treacherous to take the weight of siege fortifications and engines of war.

It means we construct fortifications all the way around Alesia until, so to speak, our fortifications swallow their own tail.

Alesia harassed the soldiers working on the fortifications, and did so with increasing expertise.

Therefore we have to have fortifications to keep Vercingetorix in, and fortifications to keep the Gallic relief army out.

But the outer perimeter of fortifications must be finished within the next thirteen days.

Alesia, it was fenced in between two separate encirclements of fortifications, identical but mirror images of each other.

A cavalry camp on the outskirts had been connected back to the outer line of fortifications by a very strong extra line, but the fourth infantry camp lay on ground too difficult to strengthen in the same way.

Vercingetorix will come down the western end of Alesia to attack our inside fortifications at the same spot.

The trench filled in or bridged, thousands upon thousands of Gauls commenced the charge to the Roman fortifications across those two thousand smooth and leafy feet of ground.

While Rebilus was making his camps, and well before he thought of additional fortifications, Lucterius and Drappes led two thousand men out of the citadel into the surrounding countryside.

Rebilus despaired of being able to finish any fortifications designed to constrain Uxellodunum more thoroughly.

Soon the tower was on fire, and the mantlets and protective fortifications on either side of the ramp under severe threat.

And in the same year that Caesar built twenty-five miles of fortifications and took Alesia in thirty days!