They reached its outer defences and came under fire - which led to their withdrawal.

All three looked up without speed about five seconds after I'd walked through their outer unguarded defences.

He planted a cross on the outer defences and exhorted the people.

It was their job to check a break, if one came, on the outer defences.

Individual elements in the building complex were designed so that they could be separately defended if the outer defences fell.

Little survives of the original building, but the outer defences are still prominent.

They appeared in front of the outer defences at Heugem.

It was now up to the rearguard of the outer defences to slow down the German advance.

Obviously Peer was trying to t'mish the outer defences before the weather put a stop.

There was an outer defence at the west end on a lower shelving slope.