rampart
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Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.
From BBC • May 5, 2025
One of them, “View From the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight,” shows two sailors and a soldier standing on the rampart of a citadel that was battered during the Napoleonic Wars.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023
More than just a simple barrier, Hadrian’s Wall was a cleverly designed military rampart manned by 20,000 troops.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2018
And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2018
‘Not far ahead now lies Helm’s Dike, an ancient trench and rampart scored across the coomb, two furlongs below Helm’s Gate. There we can turn and give battle.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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