 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...  A History of the Valley of Virginia - Page 341by Samuel Kercheval - 1833 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1836 - 708 pages
...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 - Unitarianism - 1836 - 740 pages
...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.... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 766 pages
...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 proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet-proof." " It may be truly... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1843 - 482 pages
...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 - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...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 proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet-proof. " It may be truly... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...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 - Indians of North America - 1846 - 642 pages
...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.... | |
 | Wills De Hass - Indians of North America - 1851 - 444 pages
...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 proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet proof. It may be truly said... | |
 | Wills De Hass - Indians of North America - 1851 - 438 pages
...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 - Louisville (Ky.) - 1852 - 310 pages
...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.... | |
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