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A short space having been allowed to refresh themselves, the little party again mounted their horses, and travelled with such speed, that long before noon they arrived at the strongly-fortified town of Kehl, opposite to Strassburg, on the eastern bank of the Rhine.

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The 54th volunteered to lead the assault on the strongly-fortified Confederate positions.

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Anson naturally hesitated to advance with an inefficient and only partially equipped force against a strongly-fortified city with an immense armed population, defended by many thousand desperate mutineers, and in his reply (dated the 17th May) he put the case plainly before Sir John Lawrence.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The Admiral, despairing of making any impression on the strongly-fortified

With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne Herbert Strang

The Moulvie [16] of Fyzabad (who from the first was one of the prominent leaders of the rebellion) had returned at the head of a considerable force, and had placed himself in a strongly-fortified position in the very centre of the city.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

In addition to the distance and difficulty of access to their strongly-fortified positions, they looked for protection from the bore that usually ran up the Sarebus, and which they imagined none but their own boats could manage.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Our Lord once showed her her soul under the figure of a very beautiful and strongly-fortified castle, and

The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

Again the Boers made a hasty, a desperate retreat; again they sought a strongly-fortified position; again, our cavalry being too far off to reach them, the infantry combat was renewed.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

Almost with impunity the Turks came over and bombed the camps in the area; the one at El Shatt always received particular attention, possibly on account of its proximity to Suez, more probably because it was the largest and most strongly-fortified camp in the vicinity.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

Its ancient fortifications, which of late years have been rapidly giving place to modern improvements, consisted of a double line of walls, guarded by towers, pierced by strongly-fortified gates, and surrounded by a deep and wide moat.

The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War Anonymous