Sentence example with the word 'circumvallation'

circumvallation

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In a few cases, indeed, we find very complicated systems of fortification - a wall of circumvallation with towers at the corners, protecting a small settlement of nuraghe-like buildings, as in the case of the Nuraghe Losa near Abbasanta and the Nuraghe Saurecci near Guspini; 2 or, as in the It has been widely believed that the Shardana, who occur as foreign mercenaries in Egypt from the time of Rameses II.   [Please select]

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Moreover, the works of the circumvallation were not everywhere the same.   [Please select]

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Fearing no longer any attack from without, he set resolutely to work to continue his circumvallation.   [Please select]

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[531] This passage proves clearly that the army of succour attacked also the circumvallation of the plain.   [Please select]

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The stadholder began by surrounding the town with a double line of circumvallation.   [Please select]

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Then came the news of the circumvallation, and with it alarm.   [Please select]

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On June 17th the line of circumvallation was pushed to the harbour's edge, and St.   [Please select]

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His artillery was of no use, nor his lines of circumvallation.   [Please select]

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(53) The well-known and remarkable earthworks at Birrenswark, near Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire, have long been explained as a Roman circumvallation[13] or at least as siege-works round a native hill-fort.   [Please select]

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[Footnote 13: It is proper to add a warning that the traces of the 'circumvallation' are dim, and high authorities like Dr.   [Please select]

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