It must be an open-field fight for Murray, since the frozen soil still renderedentrenching impossible in the time which he had.
So we got out theentrenching tools and dug into the side of the best part of the shallow traverse.
Entrenching tool - A sort of small shovel for quick digging.
It was not only the brass cases for the fixed ammunition, the fuses for shells, the cartridges for rifles and pistols, the bayonets and entrenching tools for which the army depended on New England.
With sharpened knives in their sheaths, and loaded carbines, and bandoleers filled with cartridges, and entrenching tools and provisions, each man of that first force presented the highest attainable unit-efficiency for war.
There was a corps of engineers, but entrenching was part of the private soldier’s training.
Alfred was keeping his New Year festivities when the stunning tidings came that the treacherous horde had ‘stolen’ from Cirencester into Wessex, and was entrenching itself at Chippenham.
So much is certain, that the English troops reached the ground too late and too fatigued to be able to carry out much entrenching work.
Very wisely, therefore, Wools-Sampson held the attacking Boers off with his guns and his riflemen, while every spare pair of hands was set to work entrenching the position and making it impregnable against attack.
Now and then night work took the form of occupying and entrenching a position, or of moving over unknown desert guided only by compass.
With the aid of the entrenching implement, which each man carried, a little excavation would be made in some convenient place and a fire built of any available fuel.
So acute did this become that on one occasion the Battalion of its own volition was on the point of "standing to" with entrenching tool handles to repel a threatened raid.
Field-pioneer company of the Guard with entrenching tool-column.
Company of pontooners with light bridge-train and entrenching tool-column.
The interval had been spent in reorganization and the absorption of the Entrenching Battalions, originally formed in February from the surplus personnel of the infantry, which had accompanied the Division north.
There is our entrenching tool which we use for digging in.
They entrenched, and by entrenching they have won the war for us.
At every station on the line of railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga, he placed small bodies of men, entrenching them to resist cavalry.
Against this position Sherman advanced with caution, strongly entrenching himself in its front.
In his own time, after being joined by Pope, he advanced, carefully entrenching himself every night.
The army of the Potomac had rapidly become a fine army, and its enemy, in no way superior, lay entrenching at Manassas, twenty miles in front of it.
With the full approval of his superiors in Richmond, he devoted himself to entrenching his position at Manassas.
Engineers--tools for road making andentrenching work--carried on person.
Regimental reserve distributed to individuals and carried on person; Brigade reserve entrenching tools distributed to units, by them to individuals and carried on person.
A proportion of heavy entrenching tools, signalling and medical gear will be carried by hand.
The men had mostly ceased to labor on the entrenchments, and the entrenching tools had been piled in the rear of them.
General Putnam rode on horseback to the redoubt, and consulted Colonel Prescott relative to beginning works on Bunker Hill; he also remarked to the colonel that the entrenching tools ought to be sent off or they might be lost.
In a War of Manoeuvre, when infantry are frequently compelled to improvise defences on the field of battle, by night as well as by day, the value of the Entrenching Tool can scarcely be exaggerated.
In confirmation of this a number of their entrenching tools were left behind by the killed and wounded.
When Thurn and Hepburn had gained the summit, which lay near the banks of the Vistula, they found the Polish soldiers entrenching themselves, and fell on them with incredible fury.
The Russian employed this interval in studying the ground and entrenching himself.
Entrenching Battalion, whither they had been dispatched some time previously, after a heated argument over our paper strength, when we absorbed half the 2/5th K.
This left us only 700 strong, but the defence of Margate and the entrenching in connection with it passed from our hands, and left us more time for training.
Perhaps the weariness of the infantry and the want of sufficient entrenching tools would have precluded the construction of serious defences even had the ground been wholly favourable.
The night of the 5th was spent by the British troops in entrenching the position they had won, and providing cover against the enemy's shell fire.
The weather was mostly fine during that week, but there were two horridly cold days on which the rain came down in torrents, and did not help us in our entrenching tasks.
With their entrenchingtools they dug holes in the ground, and from behind these little mounds of earth they kept up a steady fire.
Bring your entrenching tools in a parcel, nobody sees them.
Come on, boys," shouted Claud, lifting his entrenching tool and running towards the place from whence came the cry for help.
The Union men, a little advance, had seized the best strategic point, but were driven off by our arrival, and on the 9th we found each other in line of battle, both sides entrenching wherever they might stand.
The contest went on until darkness stopped it, and the night passed entrenching where we stood, caring for wounded and burying dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entrenching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
