The waters were high so that the bottoms were generally overflowed, leaving only narrow causeways of dry land between points of debarkation and the high bluffs.
I had had this explored before, as well as the east bank below to ascertain if there was a possible point of debarkation north of Rodney.
Consequently, it became necessary to set up our own telegraph and telephone systems, extending them from the ports of debarkation through the various bases and zones up to the battle regions.
About two-thirds of this equipment was sent to France and installed at the ports of debarkation and at depots.
In general, at these places the existing facilities were expanded to meet the needs for the debarkation of troops and the unloading and shipment of supplies.
The passage was a tedious one, and many of the troops were on shipboard over thirty days from the embarkation at the mouth of the Rio Grande to the time of debarkation south of Vera Cruz.
When the debarkation commenced, I took a regiment down the river to post it as a guard against surprise.
The debarkation took place inside of the little island of Sacrificios, some three miles south of Vera Cruz.
During the debarkation one shot took off the head of Major Albertis.
The debarkation followed as rapidly as possible, and that afternoon General Kent reported in person to Major-General Wheeler, the troops bivouacking for the night near the landing.
In a comparatively short time the boats returned, took new loads, and the debarkation was afterward carried on quietly and systematically.
The order fordebarkation came while General Sherman was absent with three brigades, and no men are left to move the effects of these brigades.
They had liked leaving Plymouth and being at sea again; they wished that they need not be reminded of another debarkation by the energy of the crane in hoisting the Cherbourg baggage from the hold.
It was a most beautiful and glorious sight to witness the debarkationof the first division, or advanced guard, to which my battalion belonged.
Such was the story substantially told to Hurlstone and confirmed on his debarkation with the ladies at Todos Santos, the Excelsior being now in the hands of the authorities.
The men no longer moved listlessly, or slunk along the deck with perfunctory limbs; a feverish haste and eagerness possessed them; the boat was quickly loaded, and the mysterious debarkation completed in rapidity and silence.
It was in vain that they rowed on in perfect silence, and with oars muffled, gaining the point of debarkation without being perceived.
Thus, in spite of our loss at Bladensburg, we were enabled on our next debarkation to bring into the field about five thousand fighting men.
The debarkation in Pomerania received little opposition from the Imperial troops, and the King of Sweden had a strong party among the German people.
The debarkation of these females occasioned scenes, more subjects of regret than of wonder.
When the debarkation shall take place on the enemy's shore, Major Forsyth's light troops, formed in four platoons, shall be first landed.
The hill over which the portage is made is 69 feet in ascent, with an elevation at the point of debarkation of 45 deg.
Their debarkation was promptly resisted by a choice body of light troops from Fort York, consisting of a company of Glengary Fencibles, with some Indians, under Major Givens.
The peace was ratified at Paris on the tenth of February, 1763, and the people began to look forward with impatience to the arrival of a new governor from Madrid and to the debarkation of the British.
The signs of land now made it high time to prepare for the debarkation for which all measures had been wisely planned by the admiral, who had never doubted the realization of his predictions.
It enabled him to display in thedebarkation his real abilities; and then precipitated him on the eve of a triumph into oblivion.
They consented, and at the moment of General Scott's debarkation at Vera Cruz they made a most important diversion in his favor by raising the standard of civil war at the capital, at Puebla and in a degree at Michoacan.
A detailed plan of debarkation had been drawn up and announced while the army was at Lobos Islands, but certain difficulties had not been anticipated.
Two or three hours after suggesting it, Lord Cochrane was superintending thedebarkation of some thirty soldiers, under cover of two gunboats.
About twelve of these did not join me, however, until after debarkation at Baiquiri, Cuba.
The lighter was warped to the pier at 11 o'clock, and the general tied his steam launch alongside to see that it was not disturbed until the debarkation was completed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debarkation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: docking; landing; mooring
