MacPherson boldly approached the fortified adobe house and demanded entrance.

The permission did not extend to the sale of spirits and fortified wines, and any beer house discovered selling those items was closed down and the owner heavily fined.

In cities where there were limitation of space such as in Qingzhou ( 青州 ), a new fortified town would be purposely erected to house the Banner garrison and their families.

Milam and Colonel Frank W. Johnson led two columns of men into the city, and for the next few days they fought their way from house to house towards the fortified plazas where the Mexican soldiers waited.

To the south by the river Stour, dating from the 15th century, is a single surviving tower of Caldwall ( or Caldwell ) Castle, a fortified manor house.

Following the murder some residents of Chicago moved into the fort while the rest fortified themselves in a house that had belonged to Charles Jouett, an Indian Agent.

Charles decided to build a heavily fortified castle Vredenburg to house a large garrison whose chief task would be to maintain order in the city.

When not fighting, chivalric knights typically resided in a castle or fortified house, while some knights lived in the courts of kings, dukes and other great lords.

The ruined Hussey Tower is all that remains of a medieval brick fortified house.

In Texas, Wales and his companions are cornered in a ranch house which is fortified to withstand Indian raids.

The fortified tower and Chapel of St Anne house the Musée de la Castre.

Attached to the nearby Dilham Hall is a fifteenth century tower, all that remains of Dilham Castle, a fifteenth century fortified house.

The name of this settlement is mentioned as Anescede or Enscede meaning either " near the border " ( with Bentheim ) or " near the Es " and sported a church, a marketplace and a fortified aristocratic house.

No remains of this castle ( most likely a fortified manor house ) remain, although it was built on the site of the present castle.

In the summer of 1781, John Carpenter built Carpenter's Fort or Carpenter's Station as it was sometimes called, a fortified house above the mouth of Short Creek on the Ohio side of the Ohio River, near present day Marietta.

Tower houses were being built up until the 1640s ; after the Restoration the fortified tower house fell out of fashion, but the weak state of the Scottish economy was such that while many larger properties were simply abandoned, the more modest castles continued to be used and adapted as houses, rather than rebuilt.

* Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire: Medieval fortified keep and house with state apartments.

* Haddon Hall, Derbyshire: Medieval fortified hall house round courtyard.

The castle-more properly a fortified manor house typical of many medieval houses in the North of England-guards one of the few approaches to Alnwick through the hills to its west.

Tattershall Castle has its origins in either a stone castle or a fortified manor house, built by Robert de Tateshale in 1231.

He hired men to use lumber from the Dakota reservation to build a fortified house and surrounded it with a sod stockade eight feet tall.

The Saviles remained here until the English Civil War when the house was besieged, ( having been previously fortified by Sir William Savile, the third baronet of the family ), taken, and demolished by the forces of Parliament.

The site of the manor house was in Castle Park ; the building was of stone and was fortified.

Stokesay Castle is a fortified manor house in Stokesay, a mile south of the town of Craven Arms, in southern Shropshire.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

At that time the entire frontier was being fortified for the first time.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

The town had a strong garrison and was well fortified.

Its task was to attack fortified positions such as bunkers at close range ( see Hobart's Funnies ).

It was heavily fortified with concrete walls and turrets of T-34, Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks.

An Oppidum was a fortified warehouse, where a tribe's treasures were stored and guarded.

In 1099, Bethlehem was captured by the Crusaders, who fortified it and built a new monastery and cloister on the north side of the Church of the Nativity.

It was strongly fortified on every side, bidding defiance to every enemy.

Bonaparte demanded that his fleet be permitted entry to the fortified harbour of Valletta, and when the demand was refused the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.

They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.

The Mandara kingdom in the Mandara Mountains was founded around 1500 and erected magnificent fortified structures, the purpose and exact history of which are still unresolved.

However, states that he was instigated by Viscount Ji Huan to invade the Lu capital in an attempt to avoid dismanteling the Bi fortified walls.

Egypt was conquered from their base in Ifriqiya and a new fortified city northeast of Fustat was established.

Dublin Castle was the fortified seat of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British rule in Ireland until 1922.

Featuring philosophical post-hippie lyrics on peace, love and morality, its acoustic folk rock occasionally fortified by harder rock, the album was not a commercial success at the time of its release.

In past wars on the island of Sicily, Carthage had won out by relying on certain fortified strong-points throughout the island, and their plan was to conduct the land war in the same fashion.

Geneva was a border town, fortified against the Celtic tribe Helvetii, when the Romans took it in 121 BC.

At the same time, there was a process of " Romanization " of the Germanic and Hunnic tribes settled on both sides of the limes ( the fortified frontier of the Empire along the Rhine and Danube rivers ).

The town became a naval base in 1657 and was heavily fortified, with Harwich Redoubt, Beacon Hill Battery, and Bath Side Battery.