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 Übersetzung für 'fastnesses' von Englisch nach Deutsch
NOUN   a fastness | fastnesses
archi.mil.
fastnesses
Festungen {pl}
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Übersetzung für 'fastnesses' von Englisch nach Deutsch

fastnesses
Festungen {pl}archi.mil.
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • However, the two primary Xhosa leaders, Maqoma and Tyali, retreated to the fastnesses of the Amatola Mountains.
  • These people had given a tough fight to Alexander in 327 BCE and when the defense of their citadel became difficult in view of the superior forces of Alexander, the inhabitants of Arigaeum/Arigaion had deserted the city, set it on fire and retreated to mountainous fastnesses.
  • We left the main road and wound into the leafy fastnesses of the hills, till we reached a little hamlet and an isolated white villa high on the hillside."
  • Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban insurgents somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba—no one knew where".
  • The presence of this Army in the fastnesses of the eastern Pripyat area influenced German strategy as it appeared to threaten both the left flank of Army Group South and the right flank of Army Group Center.

  • Some Yazidis managed to take refuge in the neighboring forests and mountain fastnesses, and a few of them managed to escape to distant places.
  • He was well acquainted with the languages and customs of the inhabitants in the mountains of the Caucasus, among whom he had established such friendly relations that he was admitted into their most remote fastnesses.
  • During 18th century Sikhs had formed twelve highly mobile guerrilla bands or jathas (misls), garrisoned in mountain and forest fastnesses, and although they owned no territory they had carved between themselves spheres of control.
  • However Maqoma and Tyali (the other major Xhosa leader) retreated to the fastnesses of the Amatola Mountains.
  • In the Amatola War they led the local Cape Commandos that – vastly outnumbered – defeated Sandile's gunmen and fought their way into the Amatola fastnesses.

  • Andries Botha and his Khoi commandos won great distinction in the frontier wars, fighting under Khoi Commandant Christian Groepe, with Sir Andries Stockenström in the assault on the Amatola fastnesses in 1846.
  • The Afridi tribes had learnt at last, that their secluded villages and mountain fastnesses, nestling along the base of the Safed Koh, could no longer be regarded as inaccessible if the country were invaded by a determined and well-equipped force.
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