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The 37 pages that link to Fortification, each with the reason it gives.

• Siege warfareNarrower topic: Its walls, ditches, and gates set the physical problem siege forces had to solve.

• Black powderRelated: The destructive reach of powder artillery encouraged lower, thicker, angled defenses.

• Dutch–Portuguese WarRelated: Control of fortified ports let small forces hold strategic coastal positions.

• Field artilleryRelated: Artillery has repeatedly changed how fortifications are designed and attacked.

• Military engineeringRelated: Fortifications protect forces and territory through engineered barriers, positions, and defenses.

• Lazare CarnotNarrower topic: Engineering training in fortification shaped Carnot's technical career before his political rise.

• Gaspard MongeRelated: Fortification problems at Mézières supplied practical challenges for Monge’s geometry.

• Port ArthurNarrower topic: Port Arthur’s forts and fieldworks made capture depend on sustained assaults on land.

• Tadeusz KościuszkoRelated: His works at Saratoga and West Point relied on defensive structures and strategic placement.

• Battle of Bunker HillNarrower topic: The Americans occupied the Charlestown heights to threaten British control of Boston.

• Charles-Augustin de CoulombRelated: Coulomb’s engineering career included practical work on fortifications.

• Philo of ByzantiumNarrower topic: His defense treatise addresses the design principles behind fortified cities.

• Siege towerNarrower topic: The tower was engineered to overcome the height and obstacles created by fortifications.

• MahdiaRelated: Mahdia’s walls and gates turned its narrow site into a defensible capital.

• Pedro Sarmiento de GamboaNarrower topic: Sarmiento’s proposed forts were intended to close the strait to hostile ships.

• BallistaRelated: Fortified walls and gates were among the targets ballistae could damage or suppress.

• DerbentNarrower topic: Derbent’s walls and citadel turned a geographic bottleneck into a defended frontier.

• DubrovnikNarrower topic: Dubrovnik’s walls and forts form an unusually complete urban defense system.

• Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573)Narrower topic: La Rochelle’s defenses made direct capture costly and uncertain.

• BastionNarrower topic: Bastions are one form within the broader history of defensive construction.

• City-stateRelated: Walls and strongholds helped compact urban centers defend the population and institutions on which their rule rested.

• Land warfareCompared with: Fortified positions constrain attackers and make terrain harder to seize.

• Battle of Fort Ében-ÉmaelNarrower topic: The fort was a modern fixed defense whose design shaped German planning.

• Belém TowerNarrower topic: Belém Tower is a fortified position built to defend Lisbon’s river approach.

• DrawbridgeNarrower topic: The defensive drawbridge belongs to a wider system of barriers and controlled approaches.

• RavelinNarrower topic: The ravelin is one element in a larger system of defensive works.

• WatchtowerNarrower topic: A watchtower is one component that can be incorporated into a larger defensive work.

• Wujing ZongyaoRelated: The compendium treats the structures used to defend cities and military positions.

• Barbed wireNarrower topic: Armies use barbed wire to slow movement and expose advancing forces.

• Colonia del SacramentoNarrower topic: Walls and gates helped Colonia defend a Portuguese foothold opposite Buenos Aires.

• MangonelRelated: The strength and design of fortifications shaped the targets and tactics of mangonel crews.

• OrléansRelated: Orléans’s walls and defensive positions shaped the struggle to take the city.

• Bastion fortNarrower topic: Bastion forts are one historically influential form of permanent fortification.

• Hindu ShahisNarrower topic: Strongholds helped the Shahis defend mountain approaches and hold territory after battlefield defeats.

• Charles Louis Auguste FouquetRelated: Fouquet's military career included responsibility for defending Prague against siege.

• Giffard MartelRelated: Martel’s interest in remotely controlled vehicles addressed the challenge of attacking defended positions.

• Raimondo MontecuccoliRelated: Montecuccoli wrote about fortresses as both military obstacles and strategic assets.