The troops were moved as expeditiously as possible to Fort Schuyler, and thirty batteaux were simultaneously ordered thither to transport them down Wood Creek, and through the Oneida Lake to Three Rivers.
It happened that the men in the batteaux containing the prisoners, were clad in blanket coats, and some of the women wore red cloaks.
The canal, however, is generally filled with coasting vessels, batteaux from the lake, and lighters for the discharge of the vessels lying in the roads.
The batteaux having gained nearly half an hour, the crews are convinced that it is not the boat, but men who make the difference; each take their own boat, after which we proceeded very well, the water being good and men in spirits.
We embarked at five o'clock and came on extremely well in the barge to an evacuated French hunting-camp 12 miles to breakfast, the batteaux coming up late.
The glint of the sun’s rays caught the bayonets which moved to and fro as the batteaux and canoes made swiftly across stream.
Quartermasters at Amherstburg and Kingston were appointed to take charge of new fleets of schooners and military batteaux which he had constructed.
From time to time after heavy storms portions of the old batteaux have been thrown up on the Rocky River beach.
Beyond, there was no trail, and the river and lakes, by batteaux and canoes, was considered the only practicable route.
It is obstructed by falls at its mouth, but can be navigated with batteaux or canoes above through a settled country, even to the neighborhood of Moosehead Lake, and we had thought at first of going that way.
The making of batteauxis quite a business here for the supply of the Penobscot River.
Those boats are from Canada in the batteaux form and wide in perpotion to their length.
Prarie de Chian who has a Licence to trade for one year with the Sieoux he has 2 Batteaux loaded with Merchendize for that purpose.
Just as the boys had said, when talking matters over between themselves, the river had become so shallow that it was folly to try to push the heavy batteauxany further up the current.
The batteaux were brought up the St. Lawrence, breaking bulk at certain "carrying places," then under sail up Lake Ontario to York.
Other soldiers he saw crouching in the batteaux on the river, while an unknown number had already crossed and were in possession of Queenston landing.
He crossed overland through the "bad woods" and open plains to the Point of Pines, where batteaux and canoes awaited him.
The boats and batteaux were immediately scuttled; the troops were made comfortable in long log huts or barracks, with astonishing celerity, and the camp, at French Mills, was as speedily as possible entrenched.
Embarking in batteaux they were proceeding leisurely down the lake when they were overtaken by a party of one hundred rangers under the command of Captains Putnam and Rogers.
More than two hundred heavy batteaux had to be drawn across from Canajoharie, a distance of twenty miles, by oxen.
The batteaux sailed along the South River, and being pursued by a brigade of gun-boats, it was overtaken and captured, or destroyed near the falls of Skenesborough.
Congress had voted nine regiments for service in that colony, and General Schuyler was ordered to prepare a number of batteaux to transport these troops down the lakes and the Sorel to the scene of action.
Its docks, situated close to the lake on an eddy separated from the rapid flow of the river, formed an easily accessible centre for the batteaux and sailing craft which communicated with the Eastern ports on Lake Ontario.
Along its shores was the traditional canoe and batteaux route from French River to Fort William on the Kaministiqua River for trade with the great prairies by the interlacing waterways to Lake Manitoba and the Red River.
Seldom has there been witnessed a more romantic or picturesque sight than that presented by a warlike expedition of batteaux moving across one of the American lakes, during a season of profound calm.
Others were just landing from the transports and batteaux which lay in the river opposite the camp.
Near Prescott, his flotilla ofbatteaux suffered considerably by a cannonade from the British batteries, as they were passing that place on a moonlight night.
Their baggage, shipped by batteaux to the fort, was either taken by the fleet or abandoned on the shore.
Their loss was considerable; for the batteaux they burned were loaded with baggage, provisions, and munitions, as necessary to their sustenance as to military operations.
The general rendezvous was appointed at Skenesborough; the batteaux proceeding up Wood creek, and the main army taking its route by way of Castleton.
Only have a care to take or destroy him, for if you do not, by God, you shall be detailed to the batteaux and cool your heels in Fort Sullivan until we return!
So it was no wonder that the provisioning of our forces at Otsego had been slow, and that we now had five hundred wagons flying steadily between Canajoharie and the lake, to move our stores as they arrived by batteaux from below.
So we took two empty batteaux and a canoe and came on in advance, with no effort whatever.
And so, in silence we moved southward over gently sloping ground which our wagons and artillery might easily follow while the batteaux fell down the river and our infantry marched on either bank, using the path where it existed.
Though we cared nothing for that, so glad were we to see our flag flying and the batteaux lying in the river.
Seldom has there been witnessed a more romantic or picturesque sight than that presented by an expedition of batteaux moving across one of the Canadian lakes, during a season of profound calm.
The vessels were light batteaux and bark canoes, which could be carried from lake to lake and from stream to stream.
Here we took in another lot of soldiers, placed two more large batteaux in tow, and sailed for the army again.
The progress of the unwieldy batteaux was impeded by perils of winter navigation.
Here we are, five miles above the mouth of Muskingum, making batteaux to go five million miles south of the jumping-off place of creation!
The time came for bringing the fifteen batteaux from the shipyard on the Muskingum, where Byle had heard the clatter of saw and hammer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "batteaux" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
