Translation for "befestigungswerk" to english

Befestigungswerk

• fortification
• mounting factory

Translation examples

fortification

Er bewunderte die Befestigungswerke, welche aus dieser Stadt ein Gibraltar für die Indischen Meere machen, und stattliche Cisternen, womit die englischen Ingenieure, zweitausend Jahre nach denen des Königs Salomo, noch beschäftigt waren.
He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Solomon.

die Arbeiten an den Befestigungswerken von Honkong, bei denen über zweitausend Kulis beschäftigt sind, rapidly approach completion and in Bosnia all highways are infested with bands of robbers, some of them mounted.
work on the fortifications of Hong Kong, where two thousand coolies were slaving, was approaching completion; and in Bosnia, so the Standard reports, all highways are infested with bands of robbers, some of them mounted.