But the Turks erected Building powerful batteries and strengthened Cause_change_of_strength their fortifications with the help Assistance of General Sebastiani and French engineers .

During the first incident Incident , Royal Navy ships came under fire Attack from Albanian fortifications .

Meng Tian was instructed Request to secure Preventing_or_letting the frontier with a line of fortifications , which would become Becoming known as the Great Wall of China .

The increased use Using of muskets in intertribal warfare Hostile_encounter led to Causation changes Change in the design Being_in_operation of pā fortifications , which later benefited Earnings_and_losses Māori when engaged Participation in battles with colonial forces during the New Zealand Wars .

Improvements to fortifications along the Normandy coast had been undertaken under the leadership of `` Generalfeldmarschall '' Erwin Rommel beginning Process_start in October 1943 .

In addition , blast effects on military material , field fortifications , supply points , and foot and vehicle movement were examined Testing in a rain forest environment .

The German armoured cruisers and entered Arriving the port of Papeete on the island of Tahiti and sank Removing the French gunboat and freighter `` Walküre '' before bombarding Attack the town 's fortifications .

Operation Undergo was an attack Attack by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on the German garrison and fortifications of the French port of Calais , during September 1944 .

since ancient times , cities had used Using ramparts and city walls to protect Preventing_or_letting themselves from invaders Attack , and constantinople 's substantial fortifications had been a model followed by cities throughout the mediterranean region and europe .

The stocks of food in Gibraltar were heavily depleted Expend_resource at the time due to the thievery of the town 's governor , Vasco Perez de Meira , who had looted Robbery the money that was meant to have been spent Expend_resource on food for the garrison and to pay Commerce_pay for the upkeep of the castle and fortifications .

The French forces Military_operation assaulted Attack the British fortifications on Hospital Hill , overlooking Perception_active the island 's capital , Saint George 's .

upon hearing of the approaching german army , pierre philippe unk , commander of belfort , began Process_start constructing Building fortifications around the city , expanding Expansion those originally built Building by vauban .

On 22 February they entered Arriving Inverness , where they expelled Removing the garrison of Inverness Castle and afterwards demolished Destroying the walls and fortifications .

While improvements to fortifications had been undertaken Action under the leadership of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel beginning Process_start in October 1943 , the troops assigned Choosing to defend Defending the area were mostly poorly equipped Supply non-German conscripts .

The harbour of St. John 's was defended Defending by a number of fortifications and gun emplacements such as Fort Amherst , Chain Rock Battery , Fort Frederick , and the large star-fort known as Fort Townshend .

Habsburg and Württemberg regulars numbering 40,000 , under the command Control of Maximilian Anton Karl , Count Baillet de Latour , besieged Besieging and captured Conquering the French-controlled fortifications at the village of Kehl in the German state of Baden-Durlach .

The fortifications at Kehl represented important bridgehead crossing Motion_directional the Rhine to Strasbourg , an Alsatian city , a French Revolutionary stronghold .

at kehl and the city of strasbourg lay Placing a complex of bridges , gates , fortifications and barrage dams .

It was the first major conflict Hostile_encounter in South Carolina in the war , having been preceded Process_start by bloodless seizures of several military fortifications in the province .

The raid Attack is notable for its military results , such as forcing Causation the French to develop Creating fortifications in southern Brittany , but also for its cultural consequences , such as starting Process_start a controversy between David Hume and Voltaire and giving rise to Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale a cult of the Virgin Mary in the town along with several songs describing the siege .

A German bombardment of the Belgian fortifications with heavy and super-heavy artillery began Process_start on 28 September .

Operation Military_operation `` Badr ( ; `` ʻAmaliyat Badr '' ) or Plan `` Badr ( خطة بدر ; `` Khitat Badr '' ) was the code name for the Egyptian military operation to cross Motion_directional the Suez Canal and seize Hold the Bar-Lev Line of Israeli fortifications on October 6 , 1973 .

Egyptian infantry assaulted Attack the Bar-Lev fortifications and were counterattacked Hostile_encounter by Israeli armor and infantry .

The redoubt was built Building after the end Process_end of the Battle of Albert ( 25–29 September 1914 ) , and as French and later British attacks on the Western Front became Becoming more formidable , the Germans added Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale fortifications and trench positions near the original lines around Hawthorn Ridge .

The fortifications of Badajoz were essentially medieval and considered vulnerable by the Portuguese , and had already been attacked Attack by them three times during this war .

Its geographical isolation was compensated Supply for by the strength of its fortifications , which had been greatly improved Cause_to_make_progress since 1333 .

The began Process_start the huge task of building field fortifications , which were not complete until the autumn of 1915 .

On June 2 , the remainder of both armies arrived Arriving and the Confederates built Building an elaborate series of fortifications 7 miles long .

As a result , resistance was inconsistent and despite Cayenne 's strong fortifications , the territory fell Earnings_and_losses within a week .

Führer Adolf Hitler placed Placing German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in charge of developing Cause_to_make_progress fortifications all along Hitler 's proclaimed Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an invasion .

regina trench ( ) was a german trench dug along the north-facing slope of a ridge running from north-west of the village of le sars , unk to stuff redoubt ( ) , close to the german fortifications at thiepval on the somme battlefield .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Sudoměř began Process_start after Hussite forces which had taken up Building temporary fortifications on the plains were found Know by Royalist forces , who closed Openness in for an attack Attack .

The Hudson Bay expedition Attack of Jean-François de Galaup , comte de La Pérouse was a series of military raids Attack on the lucrative fur trading Exchange posts and fortifications of the Hudson 's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a squadron of the French Royal Navy .

The fortifications of Riga consisted of a wall with ditch and 5 bastions around the old town .

The fort was captured Conquering and its fortifications destroyed Destroying .

warfare Hostile_encounter between mass armies Hostile_encounter , equipped Supply with the weapons of the industrial revolution Change_of_leadership and its later developments Cause_to_make_progress , proved Know to be indecisive , because field fortifications neutralised Destroying many classes of offensive weapon .

The defenders were able to hold off Defending the numerically superior besieging force through exploiting Gibraltar 's geography and the small town 's fortifications , though they were frequently short of manpower and ammunition .

A complex of bridges , gates , fortifications and barrage dams linked Connect Kehl with Strasbourg .