The causewayswere built of sandbags filled with chalk.
The heaviest task of all was the building of two causeways over the Ancre and its marshes; the only communications with our line on the left bank of the river being some crazy wooden foot-bridges put up by French troops.
The construction of thesecauseways was entrusted to the 122nd Field Company R.
He was obliged to build bridges and causewaysover the streams and marshes, and his progress, consequently, was very tardy.
The roads through this desolate region are wretched, abounding in those causeways of logs known as corduroy roads.
Great Bridge is the name for a comparatively insignificant structure, unless the causewaysconnected with it may be included in the term.
The narrowcauseways were commanded by the artillery, which poured such a deadly hail upon the enemy's numbers that they returned fleeing to the city.
A series of attacks was made by this method, and at last the various bodies of Spaniards advanced along the causeways and gained the city walls.
The Mexicans' reply was to execute and sacrifice the unfortunate emissary, and then collecting their forces they poured out upon the causeways like a furious tide, which seemed as if it would sweep all before it.
The city ends of the causeways were captured and held; street after street was demolished, and canal after canal filled up amid scenes of incessant fighting and slaughter.
We could also distinctly see the bridges across the openings, by which these causeways were intersected, and through which the waters of the lake ebbed and flowed.
Each of these causeways was broken at intervals by wide ditches, with bridges crossing them.
Soon he had led his men into the suburbs of the city, while Worth and Quitman charged inward over the neighboring causeways with equal impetuosity.
The broad basins of water and the tall evergreen hedges gave it a funereal look, and the damp-stained marble causeways by the pools might have been made of tombstones.
The garden was more wild than I remembered it; the marble causeways about the pools looked more yellow and damp than of old, and the whole place at first looked smaller.
Cortes was forced to leave the city, that it might be cleansed; and during three days and nights the causeways were filled with miserable beings carrying off the dead.
As the Mexicans had broken down the bridges of the causeways to prevent their escape, Cortes at once caused a portable bridge to be made, strong enough to allow his army and all the baggage to pass the openings.
Everybody, in or out of the house, was in favor of the project, for the causeways had become, in some measure, indispensable.
Another variety of remains are the causeways or “roads,” and the graded descents to rivers and streams, or from one terrace to another.
There were three other causeways or viaducts, one of which De Olid was to march by, while the other two were small and insignificant, and ran from the north-western shore.
The troops under Cortes, on the other hand, were even more numerous, and some could rest while their comrades were fighting; for the causeways gave limited space, and it was impossible for all to come to close quarters with the enemy.
The city is unharmed, and nothing speaks of war save the brokencauseways and the camps of the enemy.
Then I should build forts where the causeways and the aqueducts commence, for the latter in particular must be defended to the very last.
For a little while he stared at the disc, tracing the lines of the causeways with his finger.
Our causeways are under repair, and arrangements have been made so that the bridges which divide them can be altogether removed.
Mexico was face to face with a formidable fleet on the lake side, while three of her main causeways were occupied by the mixed forces under Cortes' command.
But it could not always be so, as they discovered in the course of the next few weeks; for the besiegers attacked in three separate parties every day, and the causeways rang with the sound of strife.
Mr. Cave was unable to ascertain if the winged Martians were the same as the Martians who hopped about the causeways and terraces, and if the latter could put on wings at will.
These rows of pillars stand up the face of the cliff, which is 360 feet high, from the base of which three broad causeways extend, of honeycomb shape, nine hundred feet into the sea.
And now I would draw attention to the number of men who were killed at Mexico during the passage of the causeways and bridges, in the battle of Otumba, and in the other encounters upon the route.
Its distinguishing peculiarity consisted in the causeways which formed a means of communication with the land, and which were cut through in various places to allow a free passage to vessels sailing on the waters of the lake.
Unfortunately the officer who was charged with protecting the line of retreat by the causeways while the Spaniards were making their way into the town, abandoned his post, thinking it unworthy of his valour, and went to join in the combat.
The access to the city was by artificial causeways or streets formed of stones and earth, about thirty feet in breadth.
As the waters of the lake during the rainy season overflowed the flat country, these causeways were of considerable length.
In each of these causeways were openings at proper intervals, through which the waters flowed, and over these beams of timber were laid, which, being covered with earth, the causeway or street had everywhere an uniform appearance.
Some narrow causeways had been thrown over those woody and marshy plains; they formed there long defiles, which Bagration was easily enabled to defend against the king of Westphalia.
In a few minutes these long causeways were burnt to ashes, and fell into the morasses, which the frost had not yet rendered passable.
All the causeways were garnished with people, because of us; and at that moment I felt a lofty emotion and a real thrill of glory.
We formed a hedgerow along the twilight causeways and watched them all disappear.
Have we not once driven them, with a terrible and almost exterminating slaughter, along those very causeways which they now claim to occupy and to close up?
On soils having springs and on embankments over causeways the depth was ten inches with stone foundation, known as telford.
In preparation for road construction there were several hills to be cut from one to three feet; causeways and embankments to be made over wet and swampy ground.
Wooden roads and causeways across the deep, treacherous morasses and soft miry banks with which lake dwellings were environed have been frequently discovered.
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