Fortification : Fort
Fortifications are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. They have been used for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs. The practice of improving an area's defense is also known as "fortification". Many military installations are known as forts, although they are not always "fortified".See also: castle, city wall, Medieval fortification, pillbox[?], siege warfare[?], stockade[?]
List of fortifications
List of forts
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and navy, respectively.
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wife of any king.html">king. This was Maria Anne Smythe, better known as Mrs.
she first met him in company with a body of gentlemen and ladies
advantages. Her eyes were peculiarly languishing, and, as she had
the advantage over a less experienced lover. Likewise, she was a
her would be illegal. Yet just because of all these different
sacrifice even the throne if he could but win her.
His father, the king, called him into the royal presence and said:
"George, it is time that you should settle down and insure the
let my brother have it, and that I should live as a private
readily to a morganatic connection. Moreover, she soon came to
with one of another faith than his. Not long after he first met
messengers riding in hot haste to her house to tell her that he
she came he would repeat the act. The lady yielded, and hurried to
to take with her the duchess.html">Duchess of Devonshire, who was a reigning
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stricken wooer, vowing that he would marry the woman.html">woman of his heart
with the duchess, were witnesses, he formally took the lady as his
prince also acknowledged it in a document.
Mrs. Fitzherbert was, in fact, a woman of sound sense. Shortly
her, and she recognized that she had merely gone through a
ring and hastened to the Continent, where he could not reach.
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