By 13 September the Republican front to the north-west of El Mazuco began to weaken under the relentless artillery bombardment, and the Republicans were forced to yield Sierra Llabres, whose height commands both the village of El Mazuco and the western approaches on 14 September.

Unknown to the Americans, their withdrawal from an outer defensive position cleared a way for the British to place artillery on the hilltop known then as Sugar Loaf (now Mount Defiance), whose heights commanded the fort.

Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, To see the battle.

Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alcázar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.

Again we gazed upon the prospect which the height commanded, but it was just as depressing as the one which had before met our eyes.

A flat-topped height, the Landgrafenberg, commanded the plateau and valley of Jena: Laurence took young Badenhaur as his guide again and together they pushed their way up through a narrow winding ravine that led up its wooded slopes, choked in places by wicked-thorned blackberry bushes.

The heights had a commanding view of the area and commanded the only road to Albany, where it passed through a defile between the heights and the Hudson.

Two heights commanded the entire city; Edinburgh Castle, crowning its huge basaltic rock, and the Calton Hill, bearing on its rounded summit, among other monuments, ruins built to represent those of the Parthenon at Athens.

This great height commanded all of the country around to a great distance.

Its heights command a sweeping view of surrounding valleys, and on a clear day the Channel Islands off the California coast, about 25 miles away, can be seen.