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Mounted guns, cannons
Artillery
Plunder, robbery, and violence
Pillage
Extreme fierceness
Ferocity
The portion of the Bosporus Strait that was close to the double wall of Constantinople built by Theodosius the Second (408-450), and the Gate of the Christians - a strategic location
Golden Horn
A barrier of stakes, often logs, driven into the ground side by side to make a wall
Stockade
To force away
to repulse
Attack, assault
Bombardment
Soldiers trained to fight on horseback
Calvary
A low wall for defence at the top of a tower or wall
Battlements
Protective walls, defenses
Fortifications
Divine rescue
Salvation
A platform that slopes into the water, often serving as a landing place
Slipway
An image of Jesus, Mary, or the saints used in the Orthodox and Eastern-rite Catholic Churches
Icon
A bank of Earth used for defence
Rampart
An object that has survived from the past and has religious association
Relic
A terrible event
Calamity
A building full of bodies
Charnel House
A formation made up of divisons
Corps
A low wall to protect soldiers
Parapet
Someone who also is a citizen of your country
Compatriot