The Paddy Towners built stockades and blockhouses to protect themselves. The river crossing was fortified with stockades. They occupied the fort and destroyed a large number of abandoned stockades. What Pouchot had was a small fort with wooden stockades, five cannon and 200 soldiers. Numerous Indian towns had built surrounding stockades for defense. The stockades served to blunt the force of charging cavalry. Strong defenses on the ends of the lines prevented Takeda forces from flanking the stockades. They immediately came under artillery fire from the Malayan stockades, though it was largely ineffective. When first flown over by aircraft, numerous settlements with agricultural terraces and stockades were observed. The troops constructed stockades and buildings at the site. Other Swahili stockades did not resist and were destroyed. Two stockades, the Rutland and York, were built to defend the settlers. During the time Aztalan was inhabited, two sets of outer stockades were built. After the arrival of the Tonga troops, Lugard prepared to attack the Swahili stockades. During the War, he served time in Union stockades.