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Blockhouse

noun

A stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire.

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"Blockhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... General Wilson and General Ernest were in the saddle, and long before the shadows lifted from the valleys the main body of the army was in motion to drive the enemy out of the town and into Hulling's net. Nearer than the village and off to the right was the blockhouse of Llamo de Coamo. The blockhouse was the first place attacked. There was a heavy, jarring rumble over the macadam of the military road. Anderson's battery came along at a sharp trot. At a turn in the road where the blockhouse ...

— Porto Rico - Its History, Products and Possibilities... • Arthur D. Hall

... year we raised a small blockhouse, which served as a school-house and church. At first our progress in clearing the land was slow, for we had to buy experience, and many and great were the disappointments and privations that befel us during the first few years. One time we were all ill with ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

... carry them to their destination. As soon as the ice broke up in the spring, they embarked on the Mayflower,—for so they had christened the craft,—and within five days set foot on the soil of Ohio. Other bands joined them, and by midsummer their rude huts and a blockhouse marked the site of what was to be the town of Marietta, the first New England settlement in the West. Across the Muskingum, at Fort Harmar, the new governor, General St. Clair, had already taken up his official ...

— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

Words linked to "Blockhouse" : fastness, stronghold