In fact the area particularly came to be known for its forts, villas, palaces, havelis, gateways, fortifications, and city walls.

These are large reinforced buried concrete bunkers, equipped with armoured turrets containing high-precision optics that were connected with the other fortifications by field telephone and wireless transmitters ( known in French by the acronym T. S. F.

Plymouth Hoe has become notorious over recent years for the development of the sport known locally as ' tombstoning ' generally undertaken by youths taking spectacular leaps from the waterfront cliffs and fortifications into the sea.

Sieges involve surrounding the target and blocking the reinforcement or escape of troops or provision of supplies ( a tactic known as " investment "), typically coupled with attempts to reduce the fortifications by means of siege engines, artillery bombardment, mining ( also known as sapping ), or the use of deception or treachery to bypass defences.

At a conventional date of 1350 BC the fortifications on the acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the cyclopes ( singular: Cyclops ).

The location of the so-called Zwingergarten from that period is only imprecisely known to be between the fortifications on the western side of the city.

Usually building upon earlier Dutch fortifications, new structures armed with cannons were erected at Fort Charlotte, Fort George, Fort Burt, Fort Recovery, and a new fort that was built in the centre of Road Town which came to be known as the Road Town Fort.

While he interfered less in the day-to-day movements of units than at Arnhem, he still kept himself fully informed on the situation, slowing the Allies ' progress, inflicting heavy casualties and taking full advantage of the fortifications the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line.

The Knights of this Langue were responsible for the defence of part of the fortifications of Valletta known as the St Barbara Bastion.

Instead the papacy confined itself ( see Prisoner in the Vatican ) to the Apostolic Palace and adjacent buildings in the loop of the ancient fortifications known as the Leonine City, on Vatican Hill.

In place of its ancient fortifications, Angoulême is encircled by boulevards above the old city walls, known as the Remparts, from which fine views may be obtained in all directions.

The Bronze Age fortifications known as motillas in La Mancha ( Spain ) also use the tholos building technique.

It has long been known that there is a pool inside of the fort, but when the archaeologist Dr H. N. Savory excavated the hill fort between 1954-6, he was surprised to find that not only were the fortifications of about the right time frame for either Vortigern or Ambrosius, but that there was a platform above the pool as described in the Historia Britonum.

Corregidor, also known as " The Rock " for its rocky landscape and the heavy fortifications, along with Caballo Island, about south, divide the entrance of Manila Bay into the North and South Channel.

Although the fortifications at Toul are not in that list they do follow the general defiladed fortification pattern for which Vauban is known.

Considerable remains of the town's 13th-and 14th-century fortifications are still preserved, for instance a fortress tower known as the Schneiderturm (" Tailor's Tower ") or Säuturm (" Sow's Tower "), the Kalsmuntpforte (" Kalsmunt Gate " – see History ) which was the town gate for the earlier suburb of Silhofen, as well as large sections of the town wall.

The foundations of some 300 stone-built houses were discovered, and the defensive walls of the settlement are among the strongest fortifications of any period known in Italy.

Despite a sense of urgency ( the colonists were still working on the fortifications at the time of the council ), the attack, now known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, did not begin until that afternoon.

Fort Hill Tower ( also known as the Cochituate Standpipe ), designed by Nathaniel J. Bradlee and built in 1869 on the site of Revolutionary War fortifications

Louisbourg was also known for its fortifications, which took the original French builders twenty-eight years to complete.

Gordon planned a pre-dawn assault from the Confederate stronghold known as Colquitt's Salient against Fort Stedman, one of the fortifications in Union lines that encircled Petersburg, named for Griffin A. Stedman, a Union colonel from Connecticut who had been killed in the vicinity in August 1864.

The Skåne Line (), popularly known as the Per Albin Line () after then-Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, was a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German or Soviet invasion.

For example, in the Opium War in China, during the 19th century, British battleships bombarded the coastal areas and fortifications from afar, safe from the reach of the Chinese cannon.

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

Plastic explosive is commonly used for the demolition of obstacles and fortifications by engineers and combat engineers, an early use being the warhead of the British Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers's ( AVRE )' s ' Petard ' demolition mortar, used to destroy concrete fortifications encountered during Operation Overlord ( D-Day ).

A British officer who observed one of these fortifications around the time of the 1898 Hut Tax war ended his description of it thus:

With the buildup of the Royal Naval establishment in the first decades of the 19th century, a large number of military fortifications and batteries were constructed, and the numbers of regular infantry, artillery, and support units that composed the British Army garrison were steadily increased.

In 1760 he was in command of a squadron sent to destroy the fortifications at Louisbourg, which had been captured by the British two years before.

The British occupied the town for three weeks before withdrawing, having destroyed its fortifications, port and warehouses.

The strong fortifications in Cartagena and the able strategy of Spanish Commander Blas de Lezo were decisive in repelling the attack, with heavy losses on the British side.

British Major John André met with American traitor Benedict Arnold near Stony Point to buy the plans for the fortifications at West Point.

From 1803 to 1844 the British made the town a major naval port and built fortifications on Morne Fortune, the mountain that overlooks this important harbour.

On the first day of the offensive the Belgian fortifications were penetrated before any French or British troops could arrive and the country was overwhelmed by the numerically superior Germans.

To make matters worse, British gunners lacked the accuracy to bring fire in on close German trenches, keeping a safe separation of, compared to the French gunners ' — and British troops were often less than away, meaning German fortifications were untouched by the barrage.

With the buildup of the Royal Naval establishment in the first decades of the Nineteenth Century, a large number of military fortifications and batteries were constructed, and the numbers of regular infantry, artillery, and support units that composed the British Army garrison were steadily increased.

In preparation for the assault, British tunnelling companies created extensive underground networks and fortifications.

In an effort to destroy some German surface fortifications before the assault, the British tunnelling companies secretly laid 13 large explosive charges directly under German positions.

On July 16, 1779, in a bayonets-only night attack lasting thirty minutes, three columns of light infantry, the main attack personally led by Wayne, stormed British fortifications at Stony Point, a cliffside redoubt commanding the southern Hudson River.

They were encouraged and supplied by the British, who had refused to evacuate British fortifications in the region as called for in the Treaty of Paris.

By the time the Undi Corps reached Rorke's Drift at 4: 30 pm they had fast-marched some 20 miles ( 30 km ) from the morning encampment they had left around 8 am, they would spend almost the next eleven and a half hours continuously storming the British fortifications at Rorke's Drift.

During the period of the New Zealand Wars the British Army used Congreve rockets to attack Māori fortifications — along with cannon-fire — and found that simple trench-warfare practices were sufficient to blunt their effectiveness so much that, like cannon, they were virtually useless.

During the War of 1812, the inhabitants built a fort, but tore it down after visiting British officials assured them no harm would come to them if they removed fortifications.

The British built several fortifications in the neck, including Fort Franklin.