military fortifications
Strongholds and ramparts
Military fortifications are defensive structures built to protect against enemy attack—walls, trenches, bunkers, and earthworks designed to give defenders tactical advantage.
The term covers everything from ancient city walls to modern concrete emplacements.
Fortifications may be permanent installations or field fortifications constructed quickly during campaigns: The troops spent the night digging military fortifications along the ridge.
- Roman fortsAncient military installations
- castleFortified medieval residence
- medieval castlesFortified noble residences, Middle Ages
- gabionsStone-filled wire enclosures
- Great Wall of ChinaHistoric serpentine fortification
defensive walls · citadel · perimeter defense · bastion · palisade · Hadrian's Wall · blockhouse · siege engines · bunker · parapet · barbican · sally port · redoubt · embrasure · guard towers · chokepoints · casemate · earthworks
- Alsace historyAlsace-Lorraine, Strasbourg, Treaty of Frankfurt, Franco-Prussian War, Maginot Line
- artillerycannons, cannon, howitzers, howitzer, mortars
- water infrastructurewater main, aqueducts, dams, water tanks, water tower
- coastal artillerycoastal batteries, gun emplacements, heavy ordnance, Fort Sumter, Fort McHenry
military fortificationsdemilitarized zones
Areas banning armed forces
public squares · marketplaces · residential neighborhoods · commercial districts · hospitals
military fortificationsopen ground
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