fortresses
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Its landscape is dotted with ruins of 19th-century fortresses and munitions dumps, from a time when Japan was waging war on China and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She travelled to Cape Coast Castle, one of the many coastal fortresses that had been run by the British, and where enslaved people were held before enduring the brutal "Middle Passage" to the Americas.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, now cluster against the busy breast of the big town.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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