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After the Romans had thus cleared the ground for themselves, the fortresses of Placentia and Cremona, whose colonists had been in great part swept away or dispersed by the troubles of the last few years, were reorganized, and new settlers were sent thither. The construction of fortresses was associated, as was always the case, with the formation of military roads.
He demanded that this gold be given him, in order that the Romans might not be compelled either to tear down the city of Daras or to share the garrison at the Caspian Gates with the Persians . However the ambassadors, while approving the rest, said that they were not able to concede the fortresses, unless they should first make enquiry of the emperor concerning them.
He told her of the great fortresses the English had built, where they dwelt in safety, and menaced the town and battered its walls with their engines of war. The garrison and the city were yet holding bravely out, and the Generals Dunois and La Hire were men of courage and capacity.
No measures were, consequently, taken for the defence of the country, and a flying corps of Bavarians, Wurtembergers, and some French under Vandamme, speedily overran the whole province, notwithstanding the number of its fortresses.
In case of victory the moveable part of the spoil, as well as the conquered territory, was shared between Rome and the confederacy; when the establishment of fortresses in the conquered territory was resolved on, their garrisons and population were composed partly of Roman, partly of confederate colonists; and not only so, but the newly-founded community was received as a sovereign federal state into the Latin confederacy and furnished with a seat and vote in the Latin diet.
But it was near three o'clock now, and instead of indulging in further surmise, he went off to meet her. Hathelsborough Castle, once one of the most notable fortresses of the North, still remained in an excellent state of preservation.
There stood the bridge which the citizens had ridiculed while it was growing before their faces. There scowled the Kowenstyn black with cannon, covered all over with fortresses which the butchers had so sedulously preserved.
On the western and northern borders of England we find the largest number of fortresses, erected to restrain and keep back troublesome neighbours. The story of the English castles abounds in interest and romance.
Indeed, I believe he was engaged in laying siege to a certain lady, who was of the suite of Madame de Soissons, the Prince of Savoy's mother, who was just dead, and who, like the Flemish fortresses, was taken and retaken a great number of times during the war, and occupied by French, English, and Imperialists. Of course, Mr.
Indeed, at that moment, when the enemy at the gates was knocking over the fortresses of Poland like ant-hills, intrigues for place and honour were rife everywhere, and Maklakoff was playing the "panther" to amuse the ladies of Tsarskoe-Selo!
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