At dawn the men marched back to their comfortless bivouacs to snatch what repose they could before they were again called upon to work on strengthening the redoubts and deepening the trenches.
Just as dawn was breaking, having made certain by means of patrols and scouts that no Turks were in the neighbourhood, the troops returned to their bivouacs behind the crest, leaving only the Observation Posts on the watch.
Doctoroff did not at first credit this news,--which so irritated Seslawin that he effected the capture of a French officer and several soldiers of the guard from the French bivouacs and sent them as proofs of its correctness.
The camp at Amantovo was on soft, grassy ground, and the pegs of our bivouacs were driven in with ease, a change after the stony nature of our previous camping grounds.
Here the proximity of the enemy’s observation posts necessitated us to place our bivouacs under the numerous olive trees on the terraces round the village.
Our bivouacs were flooded and we were soaked to the skin, but it was realised if the Turk attacked under such conditions he would be a hardier man than we expected.
Bivouacs were arranged in the small wadis or fissures in the ground and, of course, movement was not restricted.
With no movement the dust clouds disappeared, and in the wondrous beauty of the moonlight of a warm Egyptian night bivouacs were soon erected, but water was too scarce to make tea, and doubts arose as to when the next issue would arrive.
It was a most appalling night; a high wind and torrential rain make life very unpleasant when one is in bivouacs on top of a hill 3,000 feet high.
A short stay of two days here and the Battalion was moved to bivouacs in the wadis of the Abu Hindi Wadi on the 13th of February, where preparations were made for an attack eastwards over the hills towards the Jericho Plain.
In spite of the rain and the muddy ground bivouacs had been erected and each one had a small candle burning inside.
But soon a move had to be made to the bivouacs in the Bois La Haut, north of Bazieux, where the days were spent by the troops in digging cable trenches near Henencourt Wood, and the nights were often spent in alarms and standing to.
We pitched our bivouacs on the crest of a ridge just behind the old front line, and to the left of Becourt Wood.
The Battalion halted but bivouacs were not erected, and the very minimum of movement was made.
Making towards it with a wild hope he sees the darker marks of bivouacs against the sand, and suddenly recognises his own company lines.
The rain came on just about the time we arrived, but fortunately we were able to get our bivouacs erected before we got very wet.
Many of the men, however, preferred the fresh open air to the tents, and rigged up their bivouacs as usual.
There were other amusements on this occasion besides duck shooting; we were just seeking our bivouacs when we got orders to turn out and protect the camp against another enemy, which was approaching rapidly from the south east.
Two guns of our battery came into action between our bivouacs and the railway station, and dispersed some Boers who were gathered on the top of the detached kopje; and the firing then ceased as suddenly as it had begun.
I walked with him through the city, especially the bivouacs of the several regiments that occupied the vacant squares, and he seemed particularly pleased at the ingenuity of the men in constructing their temporary huts.
We had no tents, only the flies, with which we nightly made bivouacs with the assistance of the abundant pine-boughs, which made excellent shelter, as well as beds.
The chief cause of the débâcle was hunger, followed by rapid and ceaseless marches and bivouacs without sleep or rest; and lastly, the cold when it became very intense.
Before them lay the promised land, where the hungry should be filled and the weary be at rest, where they were to lie in warm and comfortable rooms and forget their nightly bivouacs in forty degrees of frost.
Corps (of the Army of the Crown Prince of Prussia) was in bivouacs on a plateau, after emerging from a long and narrow defile through which the Main Body must march to the open country beyond.
Rain fell in torrents, so that the bivouacs became a sea of mud, and the soldiers, lying out in the open, were drenched to the skin.
Fortunately they were provided with tents--though they were a cold comfort; nevertheless, the shelter which they afforded was certainly preferable to bivouacs among the rocks.
These are now so good that it is possible to cross in safety a fire-swept zone to the advance trenches from billets in villages, bivouacs in quarries, or other places where the headquarters of units happen to be.
From the dry and frozen bivouacs of those sterile rocks you could very well conquer the delicious plains of Lombardy; but from the smiling flowery bivouacs of Italy you cannot return to Alpine snows.
He walked round the bivouacs without either hat or sword, his hands being crossed behind him, and as he talked with the soldiers of his Guard his manner and countenance expressed the utmost satisfaction and confidence.
He had approached the bivouacs of the Prussians in the dark, to reconnoitre, having only a few officers about his person.
A long, cold, miserable march it was too, hurrying in the daytime and freezing in our bivouacs in the snow and woods at night.
My own duty in that unlucky campaign with Grant had been to search the country in the neighborhood of our camps and bivouacs for additional supplies.
Bivouacs were soon constructed, and though it threatened to rain, and in fact did so at intervals, our spirits were in no way damped.
The time had now arrived for us to leave our peaceful bivouacs and take a more active part in the war.
In some bivouacs three hundred died overnight; there are statements in the papers of officials which seem to indicate that in the struggle for life the weaker often perished at the hands of their own comrades.
In Champagne a quantity of shells were unloosed upon the station at Somme-Py and Dontrein, near Eacille and St. Etienne-sur-Suippe enemy bivouacs were bombarded.
Other bivouacsat Basancourt and Pont Faverger were struck by arrows dropped from the skies.
German bivouacs in the region of Longueval, west of Combles, also were shelled from the air, and German organizations on the Brimont Hill, near Rheims, served as targets for French birdmen.
He motioned the men back, said the Captain was his guest, and, "When you fellows get to his army on a visit you will find him treating you more civilly; so get back to your bivouacs and make yourselves clean.
He came as a neutral for observation, and in all the freedom of our fighting week and roughbivouacs nothing stirred him from that attitude.
His camps and bivouacs were near by the General's, and thus my acquaintance with him and his staff became quite free and I was often honored by the kind interest of the Commander-in-Chief.
All that night it rained, and the men in their wretched bivouacs sang through it all with a most admirable heroism.
While they were yet asleep in their bivouacs we were at breakfast, and their reveille generally found us setting out on the march.
There was that land of promise where their hunger was to find abundance, their fatigue rest; where bivouacs in a cold of nineteen degrees would be forgotten in houses warmed by good fires.
About these bivouacs were collected men of all classes, of all ranks, of all ages; ministers, generals, administrators.
Huts and bivouacs and batteries were raised and burned down.
The weather, for many days in succession, was abominable, and the forest bivouacs were comfortless in the extreme.
The bivouacs were never merrier than on the bare hills and in the dark pine-woods which looked down on the ruins and the graves of Fredericksburg.
At night, every road which approached the bivouacs was strongly picketed, and the troops were prevented from communicating with the country people.
In their bivouacs by the clear waters of the Opequon, with abundance of supplies and with ample leisure for recuperation, the troops rapidly regained their strength and spirit.
The bivouacs of the divisions were several miles from the river, and were widely scattered.
His balloon had reported large Confederate bivouacs below Skinker's Neck, and he appears to have believed that Lee, alarmed by his demonstrations near Port Royal, had posted half his army in that neighbourhood.
Vanguard bivouacs in the 'neck' of the two Hills or a little beyond.
Our troops entered into bivouacs for the night, expecting to attack the enemy early next morning.
Scarcely had we gone out of our bivouacs before a drenching rain-storm set in, and continued incessantly until we were forced to halt, the mud being really oceanic.
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