Vocab

• Barricade


  A temporary wall or barrier built to block an enemy's advance and provide cover
• Bombardment


  to attack continuously with canon fire
• Casualty


  a solider who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing
• Compound


  a walled-in area containing one or more buildings
• Fortify


  to strengthen military defense
• Garrison


  the soldiers at a military fort
• Siege


  a military blockade of a city or fortress
• Siesta


  an afternoon nap
• war


  armed conflict between different nations, states, or different groups of people
• revolution


  a forcible overthrow of a government; in favor of a new one
• Battle


  a sustained fight between large organized armed forces
• colonel


  a high ranking army officer