I completed theAbatis and wire entanglements opposite my gate, and the S.
Prepared anAbatis in front of my gate, and cut off the water supply of a village 1,000 yards due south.
I then told General Blair that it was certain destruction to us if we passed over the abatisupon the open ground where there had once been a corn-field; that we could never reach the base of the hill.
The enemy worked hard all night on their abatis and intrenchments, and in the morning we found a ditch and parapet running clear across the point on which the post was situated.
An abatis should be protected from artillery fire, which is sometimes done by placing it in a shallow excavation with the earth thrown up in front of it.
Abatis and entanglements could readily be extemporized, trunks of trees made strong breastworks, and the wood concealed the numbers of the defenders.
Palisades and trenches, abatis and sharpened stakes have always been used.
The blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot which is still pointed out.
Besides building high houses and resorting to devices referred to in Chapter V, the Manóbos occasionally slash down the surrounding forest in such a way as to form a veritable abatis of timber.
In time of alarm he sets out bamboo caltrops, makes an abatis of fallen trees, and places human spring traps around his lofty house.
Here he fought in rifle-pits, protected by abatis and a difficult bayou.
They succeeded in pressing close to the enemy's lines, and for a time were confident that at last they had struck the lair of the enemy, but an impassable abatis stopped them.
The limbs had been trimmed and pointed, and thus formed an abatis in front of the greater part of the line.
The general was off in an incredibly short time, going in advance himself to keep his men from firing while they were working their way through the abatis intervening between them and the enemy.
Camp-fires were still smouldering along the side of the abatis where the lens caught the field of Nashville, while Thomas' concentric forward movement was in progress.
But Warren's troops did not falter or pause until some had reached the abatis and others the very crest of the parapet.
Note theabatis to the right of the picture, the wagons moving and ready to move in the background, and the artillery on the left.
At five o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th Hazen's men rushed through a shower of grape, over abatis and hidden torpedoes, scaled the parapet and captured the garrison.
In front of the abatishad been planted a battery of four guns.
Beyond the abatis and above it rises a yellow earthwork, the top laid in logs, with the topmost log raised a few inches so that the defenders can fire through without exposing themselves.
A bold dash now across the shot-swept open, no firing, the bayonet only, and with thinned ranks the abatis is reached.
This was a strong abatisrunning across the ridge and flanked by high boulders.
The Seventh and Eighth again advanced to the abatis and carried it, but the fire from a log breastwork in rear checked their progress.
Aiken led his regiment on with a dash, mounted the obstruction, poured a volley into the faces of his adversaries, and the abatis was won, the enemy retreating a quarter of a mile to a still stronger position across the ridge.
The pioneers with their axes cleared theabatis and opened the way for the charging hosts.
They reached the abatis and one man leaped on the breastworks before they fell back in bloody confusion.
In front of these, abatis were made by filling the trees and cutting their limbs in such a way that the sharp spikes projected toward the breasts of the advancing foe.
Montcalm sent a canoe down Lake Champlain to hasten Levis to his aid, and ordered the battalion of Berry to begin a breastwork and abatis on the high ground in front of the fort.
The French finished their breastwork and abatis on the evening of the seventh, encamped behind them, slung their kettles, and rested after their heavy toil.
They took post behind an abatis at a place called La Belle Famille, and the Five Nation warriors placed themselves on their flanks.
A line of loose brush representing an abatis only intervened; a column of the enemy attempted to pass round the abatis through the water, where it was nearly breast deep.
Reverse: The major mounts to the assault through an abatis of trees, which his men have broken through.
Major Stewart, at the head of his men, is crossing an abatis of trees, in pursuit of the defeated enemy; in the background the American troops are mounting to the assault of Stony Point Six ships are on the Hudson River.
When they charged, their naked feet left blood-marks on the abatis through which they went at the enemy.
As we could not see out in any direction except that of the road, I covered my front with a slashing of the trees by way of a rough abatis to prevent a surprise.
With this in view, General Ruger was directed to put one of his brigades in reserve, extending the rest of his troops to fill the vacancy so made, and covering the front with abatis and slashed timber.
The entry in my diary says of them that we found them "very strong, both for artillery and infantry, withabatis carefully sharpened and staked down.
It was ordered to cover itself with such abatis as could be speedily made and to intrench, whilst we improvised footbridges for crossing to its support if it should be attacked.
The osage orange-trees which we had used for abatis had been evenly cut away by the bullets, and the tough fibres hung in a fringe of white strings, the upper line quite even, and just a little lower than the top of the parapet.
Count Donop, with the other column, in attempting the south side of the redoubt, had passed the abatis when a similar tempest of artillery and musketry burst upon them.
Montcalm was strongly posted behind deep intrenchments, with an abatis of felled trees in front of his lines.
The abatis being removed, the troops rushed to the assault.
The men, without waiting for the sappers to demolish the abatis in regular style, pushed them aside or pulled them down with their hands, and scrambled over, like rough bush-fighters.
In advance of the canal were two rows of abatis and a double picketed ditch.
All were simultaneous, and had to pass a good abatis and line of torpedoes, which actually killed more of the assailants than the heavy guns of the fort, which generally overshot the mark.
The whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches, with abatis and finished batteries.
The lurid flashes of the muskets, cannon, and shells revealed a belt of jagged abatis several rods wide covering the entire front of the fort and breastworks.
When we git through them abatis there I'm goin' to kill everything I find, just to learn 'em to stop sich heathenish work.
It'll be time enough for you to begin shooting when you see them coming to the edge of the abatis there.
They went over carefully that part of the works they had crossed, and the abatis in front, but could find no trace of him.
Jim, you and Joe go down to the edge of the abatis and see what you can see.
They have a line of works with abatis in front, and a fort on the hill there to the right, as you can see by looking up against the sky.
The further we can get through that abatis before they discover us, the fewer we'll have killed.
As I did so I came to the abatis of timber, heaped at least four feet high.
Several persons had made inquiries and suggestions as to the purpose of the rebels in clearing the hill and forming the abatis around it, but it was not until De Gress had opened fire on Resaca that the mystery was solved.
He also carried in and made an abatis between himself and the enemy.
Emerging from the woods and passing over a long distance of abatisformed of felled timber, and under a severe fire of musketry and artillery, nobly did it press forward, followed by the gallant Texans.
Arriving near the redoubt, the troops were stopped by the formidable abatis and other entanglements.
