 ... buildings; better adapted for a citadel than for defence against an open enemy; the houses are, in many places, higher than the walls and bastions and render these wholly exposed; most of the houses, also, have cellars not eight rods distant from...  Journal of the United States Artillery - Page 3971897Full view - About this book
 | John Romeyn Brodhead - 1858 - 802 pages
...houses also have cellars not eight rods distant from the wall of the fort, in some places not 2 (& 3, and at one point scarce a rod from the wall, so that...whoever is master of the city can readily approach, "This family was originally from Mechlin, in Belgium, whence NIOASUB DE SILLE, the elder, moved to... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1868 - 408 pages
...not eight rods distant from the wall of the fort ; in some places, not two or three feet distant ; and at one point scarce a rod from the wall ; so that whoever should be master of the city, could readily approach with scaling-ladders from the adjacent houses,... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1876 - 264 pages
...not eight rods distant from the wall of the fort ; in some places, not two or three feet distant ; and at one point scarce a rod from the wall ; so that whoever should be master of the city, could readily approach with scaling-ladders from the adjacent houses,... | |
 | 1890 - 1080 pages
...have cellars not eight rods distance frotn the walls of the fort, in some places not 2 @ 3, and atone point scarce a rod from the wall, so that whoever...houses the wall of the fort, which is unprovided with a wet or dry ditch; and also, if need be, run a mine from the so close adjoining cellars and blow the... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin, Alice Carrington Royce, Ruth Putnam, Eva Palmer Brownell - 1897 - 476 pages
...have cellars not eight rods distant from the walls of the fort ; in some places, not two or three, and at one point scarce a rod from the wall, so that...with scaling ladders from the aforesaid houses the walls of the fort, which is unprovided with either wet or dry ditch ; and also if need be run a mine... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins), Daniel D. Tompkins - 1898 - 938 pages
...houses, also, have cellars not eight rods distant from the wall of the fort, in some places not 2 and 3 feet, and at one point scarce a rod from the wall,...Besides this, the fort was and is without either well or cistern." The English remained in undisturbed possession of the province, whose name was changed from... | |
 | 1864 - 984 pages
...cellars not eight rods distant from the wall of the fort ; in some places, not two or three feet distant, and at one point, scarce a rod from the wall, so that whoever should be master of the city, could readily approach with scaling-livlders from the adjacent houses,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1864 - 976 pages
...cellars not eight rods distant from the wall of the fort ; in some places, not two or three feet distant, and at one point, scarce a rod from the wall, so that whoever should be master of the city, could readily approach with sealing-ladders from the adjacent houses,... | |
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