Fortifications were a very important part of warfare because they provided safety to the lord, his family, and his servants.

Fortifications were improved and a new system of visual signalling introduced.

Fortifications around the city were erected and continually expanded, with several towers maintained by different craftsmen's guilds, according to medieval custom.

Fortifications were constructed near the site in 1861, during the Civil War when Fort Duffield was constructed.

Fortifications were abandoned, and the city became mainly an economic centre that concentrated on the woollen textile industry, for which a 1723 source quoted by Fernand Braudel found it " the manufacturing centre of Languedoc ".

Fortifications remained concentrated around ports until late in 1943 when defences were increased in other areas.

In 1971 he became the chief of the Bureau of Engineering and Fortifications of the Ministry of Defense ( under Enver Hoxha when thousands of concrete casements were built as defense against states held to be hostile ).

On 8 July 2008, several buildings of Briançon were classified by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, as part of the " Fortifications of Vauban " group.

Fortifications in the area of Pachuca city and other areas were built between 1174 and 1181.

Fortifications were often constructed in such a way as to impede escalade, or at least to make it a less attractive option.

Fortifications built at Westerplatte were in fact not very impressive: there were no real bunkers or underground tunnels, there were only five small concrete outposts ( guardhouses ) hidden in the peninsula's forest and the large barracks prepared for defense, supported by a network of field fortifications such as trenches and barricades.

During the reign of Louis XIII of France, because a number of Fortifications of the Middle Ages served in rebellions by the Huguenots in particular, the castle and it's precinct were dismantled on orders of Richelieu.

Fortifications at Hengistbury Head and more forts inland were established then.

Fortifications were constructed in the lower part of the parish during the 17th Century, including the Fort of Alagoa ( July 1621 ) and later the Fort of Bom Jesus ( 1821 ), in order to help protect and defend Horta from pirates and privateers that harassed and sacked the communities of the archipelago.

Fortifications were constructed under the direction of Sébastien de Vauban.

Among Pasley's works, besides the aforementioned, were separate editions of his Practical Geometry Method ( 1822 ) and of his Course of Elementary Fortification ( 1822 ), both of which formed part of his Military Instruction ; Rules for Escalading Fortifications not having Palisaded Covered Ways ( 1822 ; new eds.

Fortifications were built from 1878.

Fortifications were built on land from 1878 onwards.

In 1970 he made the six much more severely formalised and almost poster-like Fortifications, screenprints which were published in New York.

Fortifications were erected to safeguard this commercial role, including the 19th-century construction of defensive walls around the unfinished mausoleum, which became an important landmark and pilgrimage center of the town.

Fortifications of this type continued to be effective while the attackers were armed only with cannons, where the majority of the damage inflicted was caused by momentum from the impact of solid shot.

The Board of Fortifications chaired by William H. Taft recommended that key harbors of territories acquired after the Spanish-American War be fortified.

The Board of Fortifications chaired by William H. Taft recommended that key harbors of territories acquired after the Spanish-American War be fortified.

Fortifications designed to keep the inhabitants of a facility in rather than out can also be found, in prisons, concentration camps, and other such facilities, with supermaxes having some of the strongest of those.

At any rate he went in 1883 to Romania to advise as to the fortification works required for the defence of the country, and presided over the elaboration of the scheme by which Bucharest was to be made a first-class fortress ( see Fortifications of Bucharest ).

A Spanish attack in 1614 was repulsed by two shots fired from the incomplete Castle Islands Fortifications manned by Bermudian Militiamen.

Fortifications are built across the Isthmus of Corinth guarding the only land route into the Peloponnese peninsula from Greece.

Fortifications survive in the town from the fifteenth century, including Jordan's Castle, the most imposing of a ring of towers built around the harbour to secure the then important Anglo-Norman trading port, King's Castle and Cowd Castle.

Harry Hopthrow CBE, Director from 1943-5 of Fortifications and Works of the War Office 1908-15

Construction of fortifications on the island resulted from the recommendations of the Endicott Board on Fortifications, an 1886 study of America ’ s coastal defenses.

In 2003, English Heritage secured £ 500, 000 from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and from the EU's Interreg programme under the Historic Fortifications Network, as administered by Kent County Council.

Captain John Smith of Jamestown | John Smith's 1624 map of the Somers Isles ( Bermuda ), showing St. George's, Bermuda | St. George's Town and related fortifications, including the Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda | Castle Islands Fortifications with their garrisons of militiamen

Fortifications also extended in depth, with protected batteries for defensive cannonry, to allow them to engage attacking cannon to keep them at a distance and prevent them bearing directly on the vulnerable walls.

The Fortifications of Portsmouth are extensive, due to its strategic position on the English Channel and role as home to the Royal Navy.

While the first defences focused on Portsmouth harbour, in concert with the Fortifications of Gosport, later defensive structures protected the whole of Portsea Island and an increasing distance inland.

* The Hindenburg Line: The Apotheosis of German Fortifications on the Western Front in the Great War

Feachem, " The Fortifications on Traprain Law ," Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 89 ( 1955-6 ), 284-9.

* Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo on UNESCO World Heritage List

Fortifications on Pampus island.

The newly appointed Inspector-General of Fortifications in England, Sir Andrew Clarke, appreciated the value of the torpedo and in spring 1883 an experimental station was established at Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness on the River Medway and a workshop for Brennan was set up at the Chatham Barracks, the home of the Royal Engineers.

The Union's disposition on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg is almost perfectly sited according to Mahan's recommendations in " Field Fortifications " for disrupting an opponent's artillery fire.

* Treatise on Field Fortifications ( 1836 )

* Summary on the Cause of Permanent Fortifications and of the Attack and Defense of Permanent Works ( 1850 )

* An Elementary Course on Military Engineering Field Fortifications, Military Mining, and Siege Operations ( 1865 )

Fortifications in Longwy, inscribed on the World Heritage list by UNESCO as part of the Fortifications of Vauban