>The largest fort in India covered 700 acres atop a 590-foot-tall hill, complete with towers and walls that have stood since the Maurya Empire built it near the Indian city of Udaipur in the 7th century. Fort Chittorgarh, also dubbed the Fort of Chittor, has a one-mile-long twisty road leading to it with seven gateways guarded by a watch tower and iron-spiked doors. While only 22 of the original 84 bodies of water within the fort still exist, 40 percent of the fort's space was covered by water at one time—enough of a reservoir to hold about one billion gallons of water and, with rainfall, enough to maintain an army of 50,000 for four years without fear of thirst.
Castle/Fortress fags whats your opinion on Violet le duc? He's the one that restored Carcassone and many other medieval buildings. I've read he took some "liberties" when doing it.
Adam Gonzalez
> he took some "liberties" when doing it.
What did he mean by this? (did he steal stained glass windows and shit?)
Cooper Brooks
i know everyone has seen it but this will always be my favorite castle
Ryan Carter
I've always liked star forts myself.
John Gonzalez
Not much of a castle, is it. More of a big mansion made to look like a castle.
Colton Wilson
Flakturm because while fixed defenses are sort of primitive for the modern day, the fact that it was nigh destructable to many battlefield weapons of the time is a bonus
Bentley Reed
I really wouldn't want to try to take any of these citadels.
Kevin Parker
I'm on team Ruskin desu
Nathan Anderson
Seems like it would be pretty weak in the face of artillery
Joshua Morris
yeah but you still have to walk up those stairs to occupy it, have fun doing that in Tibet
Luis Brooks
poo in fort
Ethan Garcia
Disney/10
Christian Powell
It has yellow duck mosaics, as well as a private school and hockey fields inside its walls. Also a pretty deep dark dungeon that you can freely walk around. A strange place.
Dominic Reed
This one is seriously intimidating. It towers over the whole town and has very thick walls, one of which still shows the (not very effective) impact of a cannonball, and a spiked door specifically built to repel elephants. Inside is a clusterfuck of buildings built on top of one another, with a cool armoury where almost every weapon has an extra hidden flintlock pistol or knife inside it. Might be my favorite Indian fort.
Anthony Anderson
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Ryder Sanders
The Chinese had no trouble doing it. Turns out that fortresses need a certain number of defenders to defend properly.
Nicholas Martinez
Basically he kinda made up shit as he went along. He rarely had the original plans, and just "restored" things in a way that looked cooler.
