fortresses
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French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 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
Fish, the 34-year-old councilmember, happens to be a renter in a block-spanning “luxury” apartment complex: “One of those fortresses that everyone makes fun of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
Priests carried tabots into one of the fortresses in Gondar, where they will be kept until the end of the festivities.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
Old fortresses, adobe-walled and crumbling, topped the crags.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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