Fortifications

Séré De Rivières System - The 1874 Fortifications
... Since the fortifications executed by Vauban, fortifications had not evolved during the course of the 19th century ...

Lembach - Tourism
... The spectacular scenery and the fortifications of past centuries, coupled with the limited possibilities for agriculture in the immediate area leave tourism as a key source of employment ... marked footpaths, some of them leading to ruined fortifications or to picturesque rock faces, are promoted as another tourist attraction ... The best known and most substantial of the medieval period fortifications, probably, is the Château du Fleckenstein ...

Chief Royal Engineer - Origin and Development
... abolished and Robert Morse became the newly created Inspector-General of Fortifications and of Royal Engineers (IGF) ... Works was dropped in 1895 and the office was renamed to Inspector-General of Fortifications ... It was again abolished in 1904 and replaced by the Director of Fortifications and Works ...

Saint Antoine Street - History
... street bordered the land reserved for the city's fortifications between Saint Laurent Boulevard and Bleury Street ... Following the dismantlement of the fortifications in the first decade of the 19th century, rue des Menuisiers was incorporated as part of a road, 80 feet wide (26 metres), that the commissioners built ... above an old river that was converted into a canal after the dismantlement of Montreal's fortifications ...

Lines Of Communication (London)
... The Lines of Communication were English Civil War fortifications commissioned by Parliament (see the Order for intrenching and fortifying the City of London, 7 March 1643) and built around London between 1642 and ... In 1642 some basic fortifications were built, in the form of street barricades and small earthworks. 1643 a major construction effort was made, to provide a comprehensive ring of fortifications around the city ...