'Poor bloody fools,' Sharpe said, though neither he nor Lawford yet knew what was dangerous about the western defences.

It was not hard to find the small temple that lay opposite an old gateway that led through the western defences.

The Tippoo inspected the damage to his western defences.

Upon reaching the wall, he turned and walked along the wide, busy street which ran the length of the western defences.

Its primary mission was to guard the western defences of Germany against Allied forces along the Maginot Line.

The Giralda Tower site, across the road from the Grand Battery, would link tours of the northern and western defences.

Masterminding the Soviet's long-range probing of western defences.

New Delhi will spend more than £65 billion on arms in the next five years to strengthen its eastern and western defences against China and Pakistan.

Outside the western defences, excavation in 1766 of what was then a prominent mound known as the Castle uncovered a sizable Roman bath.

After the 1759 earthquake, which led to the collapse of the western defences of the citadel, these towers were not rebuilt.