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    with Rue de Cléry and Rue du Sentier. Oriented, approximately, along an east–west axis, it is located between the Bourse and Réaumur - Sébastopol stations...
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    Russian Redan (Bastion #3) was one of the large Russian fortifications that ringed the city of Sebastopol. The Redan was the centre of the defences the British...
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    (1863). Défense de Sébastopol (in French). St. Petersburg: Imprimerie N. Thieblin et Co. OCLC 742904076. Gouttman, Alain (2006). La Guerre de Crimée: 1853–1856...
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    Leo Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches and the subject of the first Russian feature film, Defence of Sevastopol. The Boulevard de Sébastopol, a major artery...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    the Périphérique, which follows the approximate path of 19th-century fortifications around Paris, the A86 motorway in the inner suburbs, and the Francilienne...
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    Fort Mont-Valérien (category Fortifications of Paris)
    suburb, built in 1841 as part of the city's ring of modern fortifications. It overlooks the Bois de Boulogne. Before Adolphe Thiers built the fortress, Mont...
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    exceptional example of Flamboyant Gothic architecture. Because of its fortifications, the château was often used as a royal sanctuary in times of trouble...
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    began on the north-south axis, beginning with Boulevard de Strasbourg and Boulevard Sébastopol, which cut through the center of some of the most crowded...
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    The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto də sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ]) is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    Sevastopol (/ˌsɛvəˈstoʊpəl, səˈvæstəpoʊl/), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic...
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    monument located at the site of one of the gates of the now-destroyed fortifications of Paris. It is located at the crossing of the Rue Saint-Martin, the...
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    Chechen genocide (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (in Russian). Retrieved 8 August 2022. Solovej, V. (1996). "Groznyi et Sébastopol, deux villes-frontières russes" [Groznyi and Sevastopol, two Russian border...
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    moving subjects, they recorded more sedentary aspects of war, such as fortifications, soldiers, and land before and after battle along with the re-creation...
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    Boulevard Saint-Michel Boulevard de Sébastopol Boulevard de Strasbourg Boulevard du Temple Boulevard Voltaire Boulevard de la Zone Quais in Paris Quai André-Citroën...
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    Fortress of Humaitá (category 19th-century fortifications)
    the Treaty of the Triple Alliance was the demolition of the Humaitá fortifications and that none others of that sort should be built again. However the...
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    until 1870 with the disappearance of fortifications bastionnées. In 1676, the Secretary of State for War, Marquis de Louvois, entrusted the young architect...
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  • Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. In 1855, he was in Sebastopol, planning and building fortifications for the Crimean War. He returned to Switzerland in...
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    from the Porte Saint-Denis to Les Halles to the west of the Boulevard de Sébastopol. The middle class employees of enterprises, small businesses and government...
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    through Parc Montsouris. From 1852 to 1934, it ran inside the old city fortifications, and connected the five main railroad stations of Paris. A stone monument...
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    between 1356 and 1383 to protect the Right Bank of Paris. The medieval fortification had two gates and was surmounted with four towers. Additional portcullises...
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    Silistria in 1829 by mining operations, this time Totleben was in charge of fortifications and sapper work. However, they were unable to completely surround the...
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    Fontainebleau (/ˈfɒntɪnbloʊ/ FON-tin-bloh, US also /-bluː/ -⁠bloo; French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast...
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    of the siege at Sevastopol shifted to the British left against the fortifications on Malakoff Hill. In March, there was fighting by the French over a...
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    axis of the city center, the Rue de Rivoli begun by Napoleon, built a new north–south axis, Boulevard de Sébastopol, and cut wide boulevards on both the...
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    hours. The same was true at Liège and Verdun. On the other hand, land fortifications are sometimes essential. They are essential at Hawaii because Hawaii...
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    parish covered most of the modern 6th and 7th arrondissements. The fortifications of King Philip Augustus (1180–1223), the first recorded walls to be...
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    History of the Puerta del Sol (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    aspect that the novelist Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco compared the new Puerta del Sol to "another bombed Sebastopol". At the end of the renovation of the Gate...
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    and the Monument aux morts de Port Vendres on the south. The Moat of Charles V is a vestige of the original fortifications of the Medieval Louvre Castle...
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    Point-du-Jour, and the fortifications were undefended. An army engineer crossed the moat and inspected the empty fortifications, and immediately telegraphed...
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    raids. Artillery at the two locations provided mutual support. The fortification complex was garrisoned by more than twelve thousand German troops from...
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