Blockhouses

These very strong buildings they called their blockhouses, and after they finished them they dug a well in the corner of the inclosed ground, striking water at a depth of twenty feet. ❋ Unknown (1890)

The blockhouses were a source of constant annoyance to him. ❋ Christiaan Rudolf De Wet (1888)

The true gem out there is the CCAFS museum - and preserved pad 26 and 5/6 blockhouses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Looking across the way, Scott and his troops saw Chapultepec, and two miles beyond, the castle blockhouses defended city gates. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

They'd go to the southern tip of the island near the lighthouse and part the weeds to see the 172-yearold Bois Blanc South Blockhouse, probably one of the last blockhouses built in Canada by the British. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

The hull of his small boat ripped by coral, he is marooned in this heavenly/hellish place, where the white sand is peppered with abandoned towers and blockhouses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taken altogether, then, the climate suggested that if the offensives were going to be shut down, mid-September was the time to make the decision, as that would give German engineers almost two months to build shelters and garages, lay out defensive positions, and pour concrete for blockhouses. ❋ John Mosier (2010)

Communist-era apartments, drab as prison blockhouses, brooded over medieval daub-and-wattle farm buildings with thatched roofs. ❋ Davis Bunn (2010)

In 1835 about two dozen people representing six Parker families and relatives built a one-acre fort on the property containing four blockhouses, six log cabins, and a bulletproof front gate, all enclosed by sharpened, cedar-timber walls fifteen feet high. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

By these territories went my Imperial Road carrying produce to and fro, bridging gaps in the oilcloth, tunnelling through Encyclopaedic hills--one tunnel was three volumes long--defended as occasion required by camps of paper tents or brick blockhouses, and ending at last in a magnificently engineered ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

Other import­ant Russians buildings have been built from the ground up, still according to the original drawings: the first Russian Orth­odox chapel south of Alaska, the stockade, and four other buildings called the Kuskov House, the Officials Barracks and the two corner blockhouses ❋ Hels (2009)

The second world war left its print in our coastal landscape by the presence of many blockhouses which constituted the Atlantic Wall. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the context of the Atlantic Wall, the German army makes build as of 1941 of many blockhouses on all the littoral, as well as an immense underwater base with the commercial port of Pallice, intended to shelter a flotilla of submarines of Kriegsmarine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Worse, where Jackie went, the Fulci brothers, Tony and Paulie, frequently went too, and the Fulcis, blockhouses in human form, made Jackie look like Mother Teresa. ❋ John Connolly (2009)

Around its base and embedded throughout the mountain were over two hundred blockhouses and caves. ❋ Patrick K. O’Donnell (2002)