Word: phuc
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When Gibbs and Gottfried got to Da-Phuc, outermost fort on the road from the north, they found a French captain commanding final construction work of defenses he had designed. Proud of his plan, the captain showed them how he had sunk the fort in the top of a knoll so that the fireports opened only six inches above the ground. Trenches connecting its four buried corner bastions were arched over with brickwork. The lightly armed soldiers figured that if the fort were overrun, they could continue fighting from the tunnels...