Fictional
The concept of a "last stand" national stronghold also appears in fictional works, perhaps most famously in the movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers. In that movie, the people of Rohan, fearing an attack of superior numbers by the armies of Isengard, leave their capital city of Edoras to take refuge in the fortress of Helm's Deep. Tolkien himself used the concept in The Return of the King, where during the Siege of Minas Tirith most of the civilian populace retreats to the vales of the White Mountains, while the majority of the military gathers in Minas Tirith.
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