这些城镇是一位才华横溢的,军事工程师的作品,他叫沃邦or Lille or montmédy, they're all over the place. 在那个基本上以防御战为主的年代,这些要塞城镇就如同堡垒一样

You go to a place like Perpignan And these are fortress-like defenses in an age of essentially defensive warfare.

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另一方面，佛兰德斯的高水位的和法国人对于在比利时盟友后面建设堡垒的厌恶使得法国和比利时边境只建有寥寥几个固定防御点.

But the high water table of Flanders and France’s aversion to building forts behind its Belgian ally left the Franco-Belgian border with only scanty fixed defenses.

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这座堡垒曾经是这个岛上主要的防御设施。

This fort was once the main defence of the island.

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