The remains of the outer fortification can be seen as a mound running all around the palace.
The outer fortification built of burnt bricks, was about six to eight feet wide.
The space between the main castle and the outer fortifications was not great.
The walls of the small castle and the outer fortification were left partly destroyed.
About a thousand of them got past the outer fortifications, in three different places.
But there was not much left of that city, now, other than its outer fortifications.
But these simpler outer fortifications had no such elaborate designs.
A French traitor led the picked force of 1,200 into the outer fortifications.
The keep still stands among the earth-covered remains of the outer fortifications.
He led a column against these forces, capturing the outer fortifications of Madrid.