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were built to protect the city from attacks from either direction. Maybe that's just self-apparent and I'm just being picky, but if it's that self-apparent the hook could perhaps be a bit more interesting. Gibraltar is an oddly shaped land mass, and it strikes me that fortifications in the north could defend against another direction as well (as could fortifications in the south). If someone else disagrees with my concerns, feel free to check this and send it through.
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I believe you got confused a bit by the hook here. From what I gathered by reading your statement, and viewing the map of
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Both articles pass for length, citations, and neutrality. The articles are well written and don't have any paraphrasing concerns. The first part of the hook checks out (that the bastions were built by Spain), but the second part of the hook doesn't. I don't see it mentioned in the articles that they
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article is similarly new enough, well sourced and neutral but I don't believe it is long enough. It contains two lengthy quotations which are not counted by the "page size" tool which gives the size as 1237 bytes. Maybe I am wrong here.
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