Word: fortressed
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...Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full progress, Courier Cabot dashed onward. Back in Santo Domingo white-haired nephritic President Horacio Vasquez prudently sent his wife to the American Legation, retired to the city's fortress, took command of the garrison...
According to the Kölnische Zeitung, the clergy of Antwerp were compelled to ring the church bells when the fortress was taken. -Le Matin (Paris...
Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
...window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia charged in, expecting to find a great breach in the convicts' fortress. But the masonry had held. The militia had to retreat and wait for a 75-millimeter field piece, an armored tank. When these weapons arrived, the cellhouse was stormed again. But this time there came no answering fire. Inside, five dead bodies on the blood-sopped floor told...