"land" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It received the first revolving armored turrets to be installed in a land fortification in France.
- Carondelet and her six sisters became the first ironclad fleet in the world to enter combat with enemy warships and land fortifications.
- Fort Scratchley returned fire, the only time an Australian land fortification has fired on an enemy warship during wartime, but the submarine escaped unscathed.
- They were a common weapon aboard ships and in land fortifications for several centuries but became obsolete after the invention of gun turrets.
- Following the Finnish Declaration of Independence, parts of the land fortifications were used in the Finnish Civil War.
- The coastal fortifications were later taken over by Finland to protect Helsinki, while the land fortifications were mostly abandoned and disarmed.
- While engaged in shore bombardment of the land fortifications of Weihaiwei harbor, Matsushima was hit by two shells from the defenders.
- After naval artillery developed the turret - a moving cannon platform - land fortifications started to use this method as well.
- As part of his training his father had made him study the science of land fortifications, so he recognized the tlassical defensive layout of the stone walls and redoubts.
- While cast iron has never been used for naval armour, it did find a use in land fortifications, presumable due to the lower cost of the material.
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