 | Samuel Kercheval - 1833 - 504 sivua
...prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of block-house?, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions....block-house walls, were furnished with port-holes at proper bights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet proof. It may be truly said... | |
 | 1836 - 708 sivua
...lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of block-houses, the angles of the fort were finished with bastions. A large folding gate, made of thick...closed the fort. "The stockades, bastions, cabins, and block-houses were furnished with port holes, at proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 sivua
...walls. In some forts, instead of block-houses, the angles of the fort were finished with ba.tions. A large folding gate, made of thick slabs, nearest the spring, closed the fort. The stockades, ba tions, cabins, and block-bouses were furnished with port holes, at proper height.i and distances.... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1843 - 482 sivua
...prevent the enemy from making a lodgement under their walls. In some forts, instead of block-houses the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions....cabins, and block-house walls, were furnished with port holes at proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet-proof."... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 sivua
...prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions....stockades, bastions, cabins, and blockhouse walls, wore furnished with port-holes at proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - 1846 - 642 sivua
...to prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their walls. In some forts instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions....bastions, cabins, and blockhouse walls were furnished with port holes at proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet proof.... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval - 1850 - 360 sivua
...floors : the greater part were earthen. (heir walls. In sortie forts, instead of block-houses, (lie' angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A...with port-holes at proper heights and distances. The whol* of the' outside was made completely bullet-prcCof. It may be truly said that necessity is the... | |
 | Wills De Hass - 1851 - 438 sivua
...to prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of blockhouses the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions....blockhouse walls were furnished with port-holes at peeper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet proof. In some places,... | |
 | Ben Casseday - 1852 - 310 sivua
...to prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their walls. In some forts instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions....bastions, cabins and blockhouse walls were furnished with port holes at proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet proof.... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 sivua
...prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A large folding gate, made "f thick slabs, nearest the spring, closed the fort. The stockades, bastions, cabins, and blockhouse... | |
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In some forts instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A large folding gate, made of thick slabs, nearest the spring closed the fort. The stockades, bastions, cabins, and blockhouse walls were furnished with port holes... 
