"Favorite Wall?" Topic

There have been many walls throughout history of military significance, and also in fiction.

The first which comes to mind is the Great Wall of China.

Hadrian's Wall

A Shield Wall

The wall in Game of Thrones whatever it is called.

Athens' Wooden wall of Triremes

The Hornburg/Deeping Wall

Minas Tirith

Alamo

Troy (obviously)

Should we have a separate hall of fame poll for walls that never failed?

'Cor, I'm not sure. It'd have to be a great beautiful great and err beautiful wall of some kind.

The wall around the city of York comes to mind.

Fantasy

Dos Delnoch (David Gemmell)

Ooh, Hadrian's Wall and York City Wall are top contenders for ones I 've enjoyed in person.

Also, the walls along the Processional Way from the Ishtar Gate to the Temple of Marduk at Babylon.
I get to admire a piece of this one frequently here at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston:
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Pink Floyd's.

Atlantic Wall
Walls of Jericho
The Great Wall of China

Any Wall that is called "Great" has to be in the running.

The triple walls of Constantinople.
Jericho's walls are certainly famous in story and song.

Grelber

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall

Max Wall

No one has mentioned the Berlin Wall, designed to keep people in; or the souther border wall designed to keep people out (except for the gaps where people are coming in).

Wall Drug in South Dakota.

Russ Dunaway

Ha! I had to look – rejuvenating free ice water!! Its too American not to vote for it, reminds me of my youth. I vote for Wall Drug also.

The one around NY in Escape From New York. BTW, I believe we are a bit behind schedule on building that one.

The one holding the roof up over my head.

Ron Wall

+1 the walls of Constantinople

The Wall.
The North remembers.

Wall Drug

The Royal Navy's wooden walls

The wall along the sunken road at Marye's Heights outside Fredricksburg.

wall of sound

the USA/Mexico wall if they ever build it

Hadrian's Wall.
The Great Wall of China.
Thomas Jefferson's Serpentine Wall— first saw this as a boy in 1975 when my family did the "patriotic tour" of Virginia and Washington DC prior to the Bicentennial. It may have been at Monticello, it may have been at the University of Virginia— I really don't remember, and I have not been back. It was the first time I had seen such a thing, and I thought it was really cool.
Of course, such walls predate Jefferson considerably, but as far as I was concerned at the time it was his wall, and since then I have always associated serpentine brick walls with TJ.

Wall's Ice Cream

the USA/Mexico wall if they ever build it

You mean if they ever finished building it. Building was stopped by executive order. It is the unfinished gaps in the wall in which people are flowing in.

The Wall of Carthage, with built-in elephant stables!

I've been to the Great Wall and to Hadrian's Wall and I can't say that one is more my favorite than the other.

I've been to the remnants of the Berlin Wall, too, but it can't get close to favorite status.

The garden wall at Chequers which resulted in Churchill being the only MP with an active union card.

No one's mentioned the Wailing Wall? Either of them?

(There's the one in Jerusalem. But there's also the one in the Pentagon where they post officer assignments. Talk about weeping and gnashing of teeth!)

The Theodosian walls of Constantinople.

Eumelas….stole my thunder

MajorB, ewww. I'm a New Englander, where we consume the most ice cream per capita in the world — and on behalf of my ethnos, I can safely say that ice cream is best made with dairy fat, and the more dairy fat, the higher quality the ice cream. Lard fat is right out. Wall's Ice Cream factory, conveniently located next to Wall's Bacon factory!

+1 MajorB (I was going to say 'Wall's Sausages', in fact ). Interesting that an American thinks American ice cream is the best.

Historically, though, I've always been fascinated by the Athenian Long Walls

Phil

The border wall the UK built to separate them from France.

Isn't Scotland tearing that down?

Yesthatphil, Italy can give New England a good run for the money when it comes to quality ice cream!

Another vote for the wall (s) of Carthage !

Wasn't Carthage utterly destroyed. Something about ‘they salted the earth, and called it peace' comes to mind.

The wooden wall that saved Athens.

Also, the Wall of Sound

WALLy World?

How about "the Wall" herself, Amanda Waller?

USAFpilot, you're blending things. Sewing the fields with salt and laying a curse on whoever rebuilds the walls and gates was a regular ancient thing. Done at Carthage, and something very similar at Jericho. The formula must be very old. But "they make a desert (or a desolation) and call it peace" comes from Tacitus. He gives it as a defiant British chieftain's description of the Pax Romana.

As an American, I'd like to think my nation isn't morally the Roman Empire, but I'm not sure there's a lot of room between Tacitus' summary and "bomb it flat, pave it and make a parking lot out of it."

Thanks for the correction. I was mixing it up. (I often do; I have just enough knowledge to be somewhat dangerous, LOL.). I suppose if you salt the fields then they do turn into a desert. And I agree with you analysis of saying the same thing in the modern idiom.

Also, I think it was a ritual salting of a small patch of ground at Carthage. The environs continued to support habitation. Caesar rebuilt the city and it's continued along ever since.

Since the Punic Wars never had an official formal closing ceremony, Carthage and Rome finally got around to signing a peace treaty in 1985!
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