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 | The bay of St Jean de Luz terminates, on its western side, in the small village of Socoa. The entrance to the bay is guarded by Fort Socoa, which is situated on a promontory in extreme north-west of the bay.
Link to Fort Socoa: http://www.fortified-places.com/socoa.html |  | 03/27/2007 | 156 | 
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 | Fort Bellegarde is a fortification in Le Perthus, Roussillon, France.
Le Perthus became French territory after the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659). Bellegarde was captured by the Spaniards in 1674, but retaken by Schomberg in 1675.
In 1678 Vauban's plans for the new fortress of Bellegarde were approved.
http://www.fortified-places.com/bellegarde.html | | 03/27/2007 | 211 |
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 | Mont Louis, at 1600m above sea level, is a claimant to the title of the highest fortified town in France. Two other towns fortified by Vauban, Briançon & Mont Dauphin, both in the French Alps, covet the title also. Situated on one of the three chief roads joining Roussillon & Spain, Mont Louis bars access from the Cerdagne valley into the narrow descent that carries the road down to Vil... | | 03/27/2007 | 222 |
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 | Described as the "Key to England" Dover Castle defended the shortest sea crossing between England and the continent for almost one thousand years. | | 03/26/2007 | 300 |
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 | Villefranche-de-Conflent (Catalan Vilafranca de Conflent) is a small walled town in the Pyrénées-Orientales département, southwestern France.
The town is tightly packed within the original castle walls and is bounded on one side by the road running up into the Cerdagne and on the other by the Conflent. | | 03/26/2007 | 184 |
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 | Built circa 24 BCE by Herod the Great, the Herodium was a fortress-palace just outside Jerusalem. It was conquered and destroyed by the Romans in 71 CE. | | 03/21/2007 | 1,257 |
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 | On the 9th of August 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the world's second atomic bomb attack. This is where the bomb struck. |  | 03/18/2007 | 1,029 |
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 | Aerial photograph (April 20, 1936; 8:09 A.M.; altitude 1,068 meters) | | 03/17/2007 | 462 |
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 | During the battle of the danish prussian war april 18th. 1864 at Dybbøl two danish soldiers were wounded nearby this house. The owners of the house, Kathrine og Jorgen Fink, took the soldiers to them and layed them in their bed and nursed them. They died shortly ater and Jorgen burried them in their garden.
On the gravestone is written the names of them:
Dragon Jen... | | 03/12/2007 | 230 |
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 | Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Arlington National cemetary. The guard appears to be at the North end of the path. The Tomb contains the remains of unknown American soldiers from World Wars I and II, the Korean Conflict and (until 1998) the Vietnam War. Each was presented with the Medal of Honor at the time of interment and the medals |  | 03/11/2007 | 454 |
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 | Skamlingsbanken at Christiansfeld is the highest point in South Denmark with 113 meters.
1843 it became national site and fiests were held for the danish national feeling.
In the center is a pillar remembering the danish cause but 1863 it was blown up by prussians but re-rised 1866. You can still see the damages from the blow up. Beside the pillar is the flag pole with the danish ... | | 03/09/2007 | 182 |
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 | The castle is a notable example of Crusader architecture, a mixture of European, Byzantine, and Arab designs. |  | 03/07/2007 | 462 |
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 | This famous castle was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller in Syria during the Crusades. | | 03/07/2007 | 475 |
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 | The Battle of Dybbøl (Danish: Slaget ved Dybbøl; German: Düppeler Schanzen) was the key battle of the Second War of Schleswig and occurred on the morning of April 18, 1864 following a siege lasting from April 7. Denmark suffered a severe defeat against the German Confederation which decided the war.
On the morning of April 18, 1864 at Dybbøl, the Prussians and Austrians moved int... | | 03/06/2007 | 310 |
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 | This fort south of Aars was build during Bronze-age around 1700 BC and was in use until 125 BC at the older iron age, the so called preroman ironage.
During the iron age it was a regular settlement. | | 03/05/2007 | 170 |
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 | Tombstone's famous "Boothill Graveyard" was originally plotted in 1878 and was first named "The Tombstone Cemetery". It was used as the city's main cemetery until the current cemetery, "Tombstone Cemetery" at the end of Allen Street was opened up in 1884. Afterwards, additional burials would be added from time to time. | | 02/26/2007 | 347 |
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 | The battle at Rorke's Drift during the afternoon of 22 January 1879, is among the most famous in the history of the British Army. Approximately 4000 Zulus, under the command of Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande, King Cetshwayo's half-brother, were opposed by 95 effectives of Company B of the 2d Battalion, 24th Warwickshire Regiment, commanded by Lt. Gonville Bromhead. Commissary troops, medical perso... | | 02/26/2007 | 359 |
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 | Industria: a Roman colonia near Monteu da Po (Turin, Italy | | 02/26/2007 | 120 |
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 | Arg e Ali-Shah also known as Arg e Tabriz, is a remnant of a fortress built in the Ilkhanate period. Currently it is placed in the center of Tabriz, in Iran.
Historians belive that it was used as a military castle but clerics claim that the structure was initially used as a mosque in its early days, but during the Qajar era was used as a military post, and storage facility for w... | | 02/10/2007 | 327 |
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 | A spring within the fort provided water supply to the ships that called there, giving it the name "Aguada" (meaning 'water' in Portuguese). On the northern side, it provides a harbour for local shipping. The fort, at present, houses the central jail. A 19th century built lighthouse is situated inside the fortress.
Immediately south of Candolim, a long peninsula extends... | | 02/10/2007 | 182 |
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 | Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that was founded in 1219 and, for most of its time, served as the stronghold of the Bishop of Passau, Germany.
Veste OberhausThe building is located on the mountain crest (St.Georgsberg) between the Danube and the Ilz rivers and dominates the city of Passau that is located on the opposite, right side of the Danube. Below Oberhaus on the tip between t... | | 02/06/2007 | 220 |
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 | Vyborg Castle (Russian: Выборгский замок, Finnish: Viipurin linna, Swedish: Viborgs slott) is a Swedish built medieval fortress around which the town of Vyborg, Russia evolved. Currently it is a museum. |  | 02/04/2007 | 273 |
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 | Bomarsund is a 19th century fortress in Sund on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. It was built in 1832 by Russia but destroyed twenty two years later in 1854 in Crimean War by a British-French fleet.
In the Treaty of Paris 1856, the entire Åland Islands were demilitarized, which is a status that has been preserved until this day. | | 02/04/2007 | 268 |
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 | Alamut (Persian: دژ الموت) was once a mountain fortress in the arid hills by the Elburz mountains, south of the Caspian Sea, close to Gazor Khan, near Qazvin, about 100 km from present-day Tehran in Iran. Only ruins remain of this fortress today. | | 02/04/2007 | 624 |
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 | Fort Liedot was built in 1810 by Napoleon the first to protect the Island of Aix from invaders. The island of Aix is between the Islands of Oleron and Re. Very close to "Island of Aix" is the famous fort "Fort Boyard". | | 02/04/2007 | 215 |
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