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| 8 | 452 | There were, at present, nineteen such breaches about the View more quotes about city">city. |
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| 8 | 449 | There were many uses for such stone, but most had to do with materials for building, paving and fill. |
| 8 | 450 | Much of the stone would be pounded into gravel by prisoners and slaves far from the city. |
| 8 | 451 | This gravel was used mainly for bedding primary roads and paving secondary roads. |
| 8 | 452 | There were, at present, nineteen such breaches about the city. |
| 8 | 453 | These breaches, multiplying the avenues of possible assault on the city, were not randomly located. |
| 8 | 454 | They were set at tactically optimum sites for such assaults and distributed in such a manner as to require the maximum dispersal of defensive forces. |
| 8 | 455 | The pursued objective, of course, was to multiply and join breaches, until the razing of the walls of Ar was complete. |