At length the blockhouse stood finished amid the yellow stumps of the great trees, the trunks of which were in its walls.
It was fortunate for Jem that he put his foot inside the blockhouse door.
Our eyes caught sight of a form in the blockhouse port, there was an instant when a candle flung its rays upon a cannon's flank, and Tom's rifle spat a rod of flame.
Bowman's men swung back into place, the rattle and drag were heard in the blockhouse as the cannon were run out through the ports, and the battle which had held through the night watches began again with redoubled vigor.
He himself was everywhere during the days that followed, superintending the work on the blockhouse we were building, and eying the men.
A blockhouse modeled on the defenses which he built during his western campaign marks his first resting-place and bears aloft the flag which he helped plant in the heart of the Continent.
Here, in the midst of a great forest dotted with terraces, cones, and other fantastic memorials of the mound-builders, they erected a blockhouse and surrounded it with cabins.
Before he started off again he built at Fort Pitt a blockhouse which still stands, and which has been preserved for posterity by becoming, in 1894, the property of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The whole was surrounded by a square palisade twenty-five feet high, with a wooden bastion at each corner and a blockhouse over each gateway.
We pulled round Blockhouse Point, along shore, till we came off Fort Monkton, when opening Stokes Bay, the wind hauling a little to the westward, we made sail and stood for Spithead.
Can't you see the powder hoy, there to your right, passing Blockhouse Fort, at the mouth of the harbour?
The train, thus freed, began to retrograde, and in spite of the obstructions thrown in its way and the efforts of the men to stop it, rolled back under the guns of a blockhouse and was saved.
Then, remounting, we took another gallop and double-quicked again to the only tangible thing I saw during the day, and that was to charge a blockhouse or stockade.
Let half your number hold the blockhouse and half occupy the store.
A drifting pall of mist that beaded the stockades and dripped from the blockhouse eaves added to the intensity of the night.
But, like the store, the blockhouse was without occupants of any kind.
I make no mention here of the thousands of miles of similar blockhouse lines, which made a sort of spider's web of the South African Republic.
When he was out of their clutches, I sent him orders to bring the guns through the blockhouse line between Lindley and Bethlehem, and then to push on towards Winburg.
The English columns marched to the south of the Kroonstad-Lindley blockhouse line in the direction of Bethlehem.
The English then were busy when I returned from the south in building a blockhouse line from Heilbron to Frankfort.
I come to describe how I broke through these blockhouse lines (see next page), the reader will see that this wonderful scheme of the English prolonged the war for at least three months.
And again on this occasion they did not attempt to drive us against one or other of the blockhouse lines, but they came, column on column, from all sides, and formed a big circle round us.
I had even taken it with me when, a fortnight previously, I had broken through the blockhouse lines.
The Indians had no cannon, and the logs of the stockade were proof against their rifles; if a breach was made, there was still the blockhouse left, the citadel of every little fort.
He offered no resistance; they helped him up, and had leisure to secure him in full sight of the blockhouse on the Kentucky shore, where they could all see men moving about, but Donolson could not call to them for help.
He was then carried to the blockhouse and left bound with two guards, who entertained themselves, but did not amuse Slover, by talking over his probable behavior under the torture that awaited him.
They had a public library in 1796, and preaching in the blockhouse from the beginning.
He thereupon decided to cross through Valsch River and theblockhouse line to the opposite side.
We found the river almost too full to cross, but nothing particular happened; and at the blockhouse line all went well, notwithstanding a heavy fire which was opened on us.
Robert as he left the palisade with Wilton, and went toward the blockhouse to greet his friend.
Wilton was near the blockhouse and was confident about the siege, but worried about Tayoga.
There was neither snow, nor hail, but clear, bitter, intense cold, and again the timbers of the blockhouse and outbuildings popped as they contracted under the lower temperature.
Some of the rooms in the blockhouse offered a high degree of frontier comfort, and he lay down upon a soft couch of skins.
After the Onondaga had eaten he wrapped himself in blankets, went to sleep in one of the rooms of the blockhouse and slept twenty-four hours.
A strong log blockhouse was erected, and then a stout palisade, enclosing the house and about an acre of ground, including the precious spring which spouted from under a ledge of stone at the very wall of the blockhouse itself.
The blockhouse itself, was divided into a number of rooms, in which the soldiers who were not on guard could sleep, and they had blankets and the skins of the larger animals the hunters killed for beds.
Take us into the blockhouse and over the fire we'll tell you all we've seen.
Next day the two guns supported the Kansas troops in their advance upon the Filipino intrenchments andBlockhouse No.
When the insurgents had fled before the deadly volleys of the Kansans one gun was stationed at the blockhouse and the other at the Binondo Cemetery.
Later two Nordenfelt guns arrived, one of Battery A, and were stationed first at Blockhouse No.
The leaden missiles rained from three points, Blockhouse No.
Just as the first streaks of dawn appeared in the east the two guns blazed toward the blockhouse and the small church, in which were a large number of natives.
All night long the two guns were under a straggling fire from the Filipinos, who at this place held Blockhouse No.
As the natives fled from the church, the artillery turned its attention to Blockhouse No.
Next the big guns were ordered to shatter Blockhouse No.
The artillery force consisted of two guns under Lieutenant Seaman on the hill to the left, two guns under Lieutenant Fleming of the Sixth United States Artillery on the railroad, Lieutenant Critchlow with two Nordenfelts at Blockhouse No.
Several well-directed shells sent the Filipinos flying from the blockhouse and a few more accurately trained shots annihilated the little church.
On the 6th the platoon was moved to a position left of Blockhouse No.
The fifth section gun held a commanding position on the right and the sixth section was stationed directly in front of McLeod's house, from which point it could sweep the enemy's line from Blockhouse No.
Here the Fourth Infantry remained, but continued to maintain a fire upon both the blockhouse and the town.
We came into action directly in front of the stone blockhouse at 12.
Two companies of this First Battalion "fired into the town and also into the blockhouse until its fall.
Major Baker, who was on the field and had the blockhouse in clear view, declares that some of Bates' brigade and the Twenty-fifth Infantry carried the stone fort.
Their camp was surrounded by earthworks, and a strong blockhouse commanded the railroad and bridge across the creek, where a row of sharpened stakes presented an ugly front to any hostile visitor.
A blockhouse commanding the bridge over a small creek was a novelty, and, as long as daylight lasted, we found enough that was new and interesting to keep our eyes fully occupied.
A blockhouse was erected to protect the boats and heavy baggage, and then the white troops pressed forward to a position three-quarters of a mile away from the Indian encampment at Prophet's Town.
I proposed that we should build a blockhouse on the Indian mound to defend ourselves in if we were attacked.
He fell like a brave American as he was, but not alone, for the dead bodies of thirty foes were lying round the blockhouse when he died.
The women were now in the way--we hadn't room for so many--so I called out to them to get into the blockhouse and load the rifles.
So, seeing us all, even the women, so determined, Asa gave in to our way of thinking, and the very same day we began the blockhouse you see before you.
The Acadians were coming on in front, and they set up a whoop when they saw the blockhouse and stockade; but finding that we were prepared to receive them, they retreated upon the main body.
The blockhousewas of equal length and breadth, about forty feet square.
But Henry and Major Braithwaite in the cupola of the blockhouse once more looked southward over the surface of the Ohio and wondered why the fleet did not come.
The fleet at the southern margin blended with the darkness, but they could dimly see, high upon the cliff, the walls of the fort, and also a few lights that twinkled in the blockhouse or the upper stories of cabins.
He was wild with the rage of battle, but a lucky shot from the window of the blockhouse slew him.
Suppose we go to the top of the blockhouse and look at it through your glasses.
A blockhouse and battery crowned also the eastern extremity of the island, and both, provided with a flag staff for the purpose of communication by signal with the fort, were far from being wanting in picturesque effect.
At this time there was also a blockhouse at Canseau, where a few soldiers were stationed.
It consisted of a log blockhousesurrounded by a palisade.
The blockhouse and mills there were instantly taken.
Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old blockhouse like a rum puncheon.
So thinking, and in famous spirits, I began to set my face homeward for the blockhouse and my companions.
The blockhouse is now in ruins, but the name of its builder has been fairly well preserved, for it is--Phil Sheridan.
Just below the locks on the north side stood the old blockhouse built by a young lieutenant in 1856 as a defence against the Klickitat Indians.
