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outer and defences
Moving clockwise around the outer bailey from Mortimer's Tower, the defences include a west-facing watergate, which would originally have led onto the Great Mere ; the King's gate, a late 17th century agricultural addition ; the Swan Tower, a late 13th century tower with 16th century additions named after the swans that lived on the Great Mere ; the early 13th century Lunn's Tower ; and the 14th century Water Tower, so named because it overlooked the Lower Pool.
John spent £ 1, 115 on Kenilworth Castle between 1210 and 1216, building the outer bailey wall in stone and improving the other defences, including creating Mortimer's and Lunn's Towers.
The halt was primarily the result of Edward's new wars in Scotland, which had begun to consume his attention and financial resources, but it left the castle only partially complete: the inner walls and towers were only a fraction of their proper height and the north and north-west sides lacked outer defences altogether.
Work recommenced on completing the outer defences, first under James ' direction and then, after his death in 1309, Master Nicolas de Derneford.
The castle has a concentric design, with one line of defences enclosed by another, forming an inner and outer ward ; the outer wall was originally somewhat taller than today.
Russian reconnaissance reports had also indicated that these outer defences were occupied by a mixture of Tunisians, raw recruits and militia, and not of the same calibre of men that had defeated them on the Danube at the beginning of the war.
The loss of the outer ring of defences severely restricted Allied movements and confined them to a narrow area between Balaclava and Sevastopol.
A few structures of the fourteenth century remain, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century.
The gatehouse providing entry from the outer defences to the castle proper was erected by King James IV, and was probably completed around 1506.
William Twiss, the Commanding Engineer of the Southern District, as part of his brief to improve the town's defences, completed the remodelling of the outer defences of Dover Castle adding the huge Horseshoe, Hudson's, East Arrow and East Demi-Bastions to provide extra gun positions on the eastern side, and constructing the Constable's Bastion for additional protection on the west.
The outer ward of the castle was breached but not the inner defences, with the town itself burned.
In the opinion of historian Hugh Kennedy the defences of the outer wall were " the most elaborate and developed anywhere in the Latin east ... the whole structure is a brilliantly designed and superbly built fighting machine ".
Air power and radio, recent developments in warfare, would allow units to establish bases deep in enemy territory, breaching the outer defences and extend the range of conventional forces.
The sheer manpower required by de Gomme's defences meant that after about 1730 the double moat system used around Portsmouth was abandoned with the outer moat being filled in.
The outer defences consist of two wet moats, a ravelin and a redan.
These fortifications were apparently older than the Theodosian Walls, probably dating to sometime in the 4th century, and were then connected to the new city walls under Theodosius II, with the western wall forming the outer face of the city's defences and the eastern wall fell into disrepair.
The Helles forts made up the outer defences of the straits and had already been neutralised by naval gunfire and raids by Royal Marines.
To strengthen the city's defences, in the second stage of the Festung Posen scheme, an outer ring of forts was built to encircle the city.
While the outer defences lay at the entrance to the straits and would prove vulnerable to bombardment and raiding, the inner defences covered the Narrows, the narrowest point of the straits near Çanakkale.
The outer wall, in circumference, once enclosed the ancient city of Deogiri ( Devagiri ), and between this and the base of the upper fort are three lines of defences.
Bergfried, which take their name from the German for a belfry, were in one sense similar to keeps, but are usually distinguished from them on account of bergfied having a smaller area or footprint, usually being non-residential and being typically integrated into the outer defences of a castle, rather than being a safe refuge of last resort.

outer and fell
When the Mexican soldiers breached the north outer walls of the Alamo complex, most of the Texians fell back to the barracks and the chapel, as previously planned.
" Ingredients include " an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space "; said ingredients are not to be " touched, inhaled, or looked at " if exposed due to rupture.
* Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Notorious demographics which fell in 1996 were outer suburb mortgage belt areas.
He fell in with Ranajor Singh's outer picquet at three in the morning, at about a mile's distance from the point to be occupied.
She fell in love with Daredevil, but then returned to outer space.
The game features the appearance of Force Metals, special alloys from meteorites that fell from outer space.
This constituency covered most of the city of York, though the outer parts of the city and local authority area fell within the Selby, Vale of York and Ryedale constituencies.
This fell into disrepair in the 1940s and was allowed to decay further by the owner to the extent that the outer walls needed supporting.
After coalescing and drifting through outer space for about one and a half billion years, a large mass fell to earth as a meteor approximately 2. 3 billion years ago, possibly fragmenting during entry into the Earth's atmosphere, and impacting in a region which would much later split into Brazil and the Central African Republic, the only two known locations of carbonado deposits.
Thus the outer surface was polished and the platforms of the steps were not horizontal, but fell off to the outside.
Soon thereafter, the outer city of Yue fell, and Dong withdrew into the inner city to continue to defend it.
* The Spider, the first lunar module to be tested in outer space for docking with a lunar orbiter fell out of orbit and burned up in the Earth's atmosphere.

outer and March
* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
* March 22 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to save Gate 2 ( the only portion of the original Yankee Stadium that mostly remained unaltered after the venue's renovation ), demolition of the outer walls of the stadium began on March 29.
* Patent No. 314, 742 ( March 31, 1885 ): The inner and outer case comprise up to 18 layers of solid, hard-textured, horizontal-grain timber, pressed and bent into shape in one operation.
The former subject lands saw this as a clear threat to their equality, and encouraged by the July Revolution of 1830 the four outer districts ; March, Einsiedeln, Pfaeffikon and Küssnacht signed a new constitution which guaranteed, among other things, proportional representation.
On 9 March 1831 the outer districts seceded from Schwyz and formed the Canton of Outer Schwyz with the capital in Einseideln.
He also wrote in Contact with Space that in March 1956 the " very remote possibility " occurred to him that his own father had been from outer space.
An outer main-belt asteroid discovered March 23, 2001 by David H. Healy was named 165612 Stackpole.
Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. ( June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997 ) was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceiving the idea of telescopes operating in outer space.
March 2005 saw NASA teaming up with the Pokémon Trading Card Game team to use Deoxys's likeness to educate children about outer space and the ozone layer.
But the Nairobi Trio wasn't always confined to silence with " Solfeggio "; they went into outer space and also became safe crackers on a US Steel special, " Private Eye, Private Eye ", aired on CBS March 8, 1961.
The station was opened on 6 March 1871, although today's buildings are of a modern design: the platforms are only located on the outer, Slow lines, since the station is only served by London Overground trains between and or, local trains between London Bridge and Caterham and by the London Bridge to London Victoria loop line via Crystal Palace, plus some London Bridge to Guildford and in peak times.
The division moved through outer belts of the Siegfried Line, captured Pirmasens, 21 March, and crossed the Rhine at Oppenheim, 30 March.
* Vice President Gore challenges NASA to build a new satellite to provide live images of Earth from outer space White House press release, March 13, 1998
The inner bailey is open to the public from March to November, and the outer baileys are open all year.
Today, Château Gaillard's inner bailey is open to the public from March to November, while the outer baileys are open all year round.
In March 1953 an organization known as the " International Flying Saucer Bureau " sent a bulletin to all its members urging them to participate in an experiment termed " World Contact Day " whereby, at a predetermined date and time, they would attempt to collectively send out a telepathic message to visitors from outer space.
Services on the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, including the 1 and 9 trains, used the outer platform as a terminal station until March 16, 2009, when the new South Ferry station opened for 1 train passengers.
A subsequent study, published in March 2005, revealed further details about this star: labeled Tycho G, it was probably a main-sequence star or subgiant prior to the explosion, but had some of its mass stripped away and its outer layers shock-heated from the effects of the supernova.
Despite this, by 25 March the outer encirclement was completed, trapping several German units including a platoon from the Müncheberg.
At the top of the seal a banner holds the motto " Equality Before the Law ", and around the outer ring of the seal contain the text " Great Seal of the State of Nebraska, March 1st, 1867 ".
The pair were greeted by Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh, who had been in outer space since March 12.
The building was gutted by fire in March 1922, leaving only the outer wall and destroying many of the city's historic records.

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