8 Metaphors for fortification

The fortifications of the walled city are a fine sample of the Vauban type, on which military engineers expended so much ingenuity 150 years ago, and of which Spain possessed so many in her Flemish dominions.

He knows not the nature of cowardice, for his rest is set up upon resolution; his strongest fortification is his mind, which beats off the assaults of idle humours, and his life is the passage of danger, where an undaunted spirit stoops to no fortune.

On four separate occasions the town was taken by the French, and the dismantled fortifications which still surround it were once an example of the genius of Vauban.

The fortifications, or Bastiles, of Paris, we see, therefore, were no new invention of Louis Philippe to awe the populace.

Moderate fixed fortifications are all the passive defence that would be needed; but good and active troops must be available.

The only fortification in 1530 was the Fort of St. Angelo, with a few guns and very weak walls.

The "fortifications of cotton-bales" were only a romance of the war.

The fortification of the coasts and the gradual increase and improvement of the Navy are parts of a great system of national defense which has been upward of ten years in progress, and which for a series of years to come will continue to claim the constant and persevering protection and superintendence of the legislative authority.

8 Metaphors for  fortification