Meanings (ES + gloss)
bastión • fortaleza • fuerte • plaza fuerte
A place built to withstand attack; a fortress.
AFter this victory thus opteyned by the Sicambris, they waxed so stronge that they wan frome yᵉ Almaynes dyuers Townes & stronge holds wᵗin Germania, and after that they opteyned y…
For security's sake they [the Germans] gathered together in villages and cities. These they surrounded with heavy walls and towers, and protected them by castles, erected on steep…
baluarte • reducto • refugio
A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea.
With the numerous soldiers of Asia, with all of warlike stores, ships, and military engines, that wealth and power could command, the Turks at once resolved to crush an enemy, whic…
the last stronghold of the Cornish language
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