Due to the nature of the aggression from the machines, Zion is an example of a heavily fortified hyperstructure.

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

Colonel Nakagawa used the rough terrain to his advantage, by constructing a system of heavily fortified bunkers, caves, and underground positions all interlocked into a " honeycomb " system.

Smaller independent units were allocated elsewhere, mostly around heavily fortified cities.

He moved into the expansive Diocletian's Palace, a heavily fortified compound located by the small town of Spalatum on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, and near the large provincial administrative center of Salona.

The city itself grew around the heavily fortified Diocletian's Palace the Emperor had built in anticipation of his retirement.

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

Dutch forces first established independent bases in the East ( most significantly Batavia, the heavily fortified headquarters of the Dutch East India Company ) and then between 1640 and 1660 wrestled Malacca, Ceylon, some southern Indian ports, and the lucrative Japan trade from the Portuguese.

By mid-May, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified Persian capital, Ctesiphon, where Julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the Tigris by night.

Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate victory, the Southerners were unable to follow up their win in any significant fashion, as the City of Kansas was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified for them to assault.

Another type of gateway fortification was a barbican, a heavily fortified entranceway.

In the Nineteenth century, Fortress Bermuda would become Britain's Gibraltar of the West, heavily fortified by a Regular Army garrison to protect the Royal Navy's headquarters and dockyard in the Western Atlantic.

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.

Izz al-Din would not accept his terms because he considered them disingenuous and extensive, and Saladin immediately laid siege to the heavily fortified city.

As of 2009, North and South Korea are still opposed and share a heavily fortified border.

Parts of the island were heavily fortified, as exemplified by UNESCO World Heritage Site at Brimstone Hill and the now-crumbling Fort Charles.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan gave orders in 1631 to Qasim Khan, the Mughal viceroy of Bengal, to drive out the Portuguese from their trading post at Port Hoogly, the trading post was heavily armed with cannons, battleships, fortified walls, and other instruments of war.

The Franks, however, had well-defended coasts and heavily fortified ports and harbours.

By September 15, German troops reached the outskirts of the heavily fortified city of Paris.

For the most part of the years of the Fifth Coalition, British military operations on land apart from in the Iberian Peninsula remained restricted to hit-and-run operations executed by the Royal Navy, which dominated the sea after having beaten down almost all substantial naval opposition from France and its allies and blockading what remained of France's naval forces in heavily fortified French-controlled ports.

It built heavily fortified settlements, engaged in bronze metallurgy on an industrial scale and practiced complex burial rituals reminiscent of rituals known from the Rigveda and the Avesta.

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.

Rather than relying on a heavily fortified front line, the defence is arranged in a series of echelons.

They enjoyed a considerable superiority in numbers over the defenders, but the settlement had been heavily fortified by Dupleix and after two months the siege was abandoned.

After destroying their suburbs, the Xanthians withdrew into the heavily fortified city.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

President Rene Preval on his campaign for his second terms vow on his Maillages Routiers to rebuild the majority of those roads that was disintegrate rapidly and build new one that will enable the country to move forward ; when he could not get fund from the world Bank went Literally and beg Foreign donor for assistant which was heavily criticize by many politicians in the media, but was greatly embrace by a population desperate to see road pave come in to their town.

He sends a heavily guarded convoy of provisions into the town and laid siege, by constructing a line of blockhouses, connected by trenches.

As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes and the town had to be abandoned.

The town is home to one of the ' Ndrangheta's biggest and most important clans, the Commisso ' ndrina, heavily involved in the global cocaine business and money laundering.

Marathon ( Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas ; Attic / Katharevousa:, ) is a town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.

Because the town drunk is notable only for drinking heavily, there are relatively few historical figures who inform the stereotype of the town drunk.

The 4th Canadian Division was responsible for the northern portion of the advance that included the capture of the highest point of the ridge followed by the heavily defended Pimple just west of the town of Givenchy-en-Gohelle.

The negroes came into the town today and started drinking heavily.

Upon German entry in World War I, the town was heavily damaged due to German Schrecklichkeit policy.

Having crossed the Cottian Alps at the Mont Cenis pass, he first came to Segusium ( Susa, Italy ), a heavily fortified town containing a military garrison, which shut its gates to him.

The town suffered heavily during the Jewish rising of AD 116 – 117.

Emergency ambulance services consist of one full time medical unit dispatched from the town of Trenton and relies heavily on other volunteer EMS personnel geographically scattered around the county to assist with a medical emergency.

The town was bombed heavily during the Second World War, mainly due its position both on the riverside and near to Royal Arsenal.

The European Union has invested heavily in the regeneration of the area ; partly funding the futuristic, award-winning Peckham Library, a new town square and swathes of new housing to replace the North Peckham Estate.

This town was heavily flooded in 1995 and 1998.

Bowen had built a home in Woodstock and invested heavily in the improvement of his home town.

The town is heavily reliant on agriculture which mainly consists of fern growing.

The town of Jasper is a regional center in southwestern Indiana, noted for its heavily German Catholic ancestral roots.

Like many other communities along the Lower Wabash Valley, the Owensville Area is particularly known for its watermelons, cantaloupes, and zucchini, all heavily produced in the bottoms located from the north to the southwest of the town.

The town and surrounding countryside was populated heavily by settlers from eastern Stokes and neighboring western Rockingham counties in North Carolina, who arrived largely between 1815 and 1833.

The early town of Ulysses had been bonded heavily for improvements that were never made.