In event of no umpire being available, a folded note must be put on the mantelpiece when entrenchment is commenced, and opponent asked to open it when the trench is completed or the mine exploded.
But if there is a wall, house, or entrenchment between any men and the shell, they are uninjured--they do not count in the reckoning of the effect of the shell.
Troy then slid down on the outside of the rampart, hastened round in the bottom of the entrenchment to a distance of a hundred yards, ascended again, and crossed boldly in a slow walk towards the front entrance of the tent.
Besides this, there runs between the gallies and the strand, an entrenchment like a ridge or long hill, making the place very strong and defensible.
Dominique Guyon departed shortly before noon; and a week later half a dozen habitants arrived from Boisveyrac to work at the entrenchment which the Commandant had already opened across Sans Quartier's cabbage plot.
The rebel flag was hauled down with cheers, all found within the entrenchment were captured, and some of the many fugitives were intercepted by the cavalry.
The entrenchment was carried with wild hurrahs, “and a body of men with pikes was immolated under the eye of the commander before the bugle to cease firing recalled the soldiers from the work to which they had been provoked.
It took visible form: it was this double entrenchment of the Rings.
The entrenchment showed like the rim of a saucer, and over its narrow line peeped the summit of the central tree.
For nearly three months their heavy guns and musketry had poured an unceasing fire into the residency entrenchment from a distance of only 50 yds.
Therefore, it was finally decided to carry the heights of Magersfontein, and after their occupation and entrenchment to make a turning movement against the left flank of the Spytfontein range.
White with his mishap, his position, and his plan, and issued orders for the disposition and entrenchment of the troops.
It is a mere waste of ammunition also to bombard an entrenchment when the infantry attack is likely to be delayed, even for a short time.
The Boer losses were six killed, one drowned, and 22 wounded, the relative smallness of these figures being largely due to their admirable system of entrenchment and to the invisibility of smokeless powder.
The fortifications consisted of extensive outer works, within which was an entrenchment eight or nine feet high, boarded and fraized.
On the east and south an entrenchment was made--the ditch six feet wide and three in depth; the mound not four feet high, very narrow, and such as might easily have been beat down by cannon.
Presently we got on the slope of the hill, and at the summit passed the entrenchment and the shepherds' timepiece.
Cicely said that once some snow lingered in the fosse of the entrenchment we had left behind till the haymaking.
An entrenchment had been dug in front of the entrance, and the figures of some of the rebel soldiery were visible on it.
They had gone about a quarter of the distance across the square, when suddenly, from the entrenchment or barricade three hundred yards away, there darted a puff of smoke; five or six more followed in quick succession.
Site of an ancient battle-field, with vestiges of an entrenchment and fortification on the banks of the Deoseowa, or Buffalo creek.
At this day a portion of this entrenchment is easily perceived for fifteen rods along the extreme western half of the north or front part, the cultivation of the soil, with other causes, having nearly obliterated all other portions.
He had also carried an entrenchment from the left angle of the camp to the river, about four hundred paces, that his soldiers might have more liberty and less danger in fetching water.
Now the Britons, when they have fortified the intricate woods, in which they are wont to assemble for the purpose of avoiding the incursion of an enemy, with an entrenchment and a rampart, call them a town.
On the right, the Colonial troops had driven the Boers in front of them for nearly three miles, capturingentrenchment after entrenchment, until they arrived at Nelthorpe station.
I don't think that troubled the military authorities at all; an entrenchment thrown up by farmers and peasants could be but a worthless affair, and would not for a moment check the advance of British infantry.
Their entrenchment at the crest of the ridge was held by something like three thousand men.
The slaughter would have been yet heavier but for the entrenchment which had been made by the company of the Ninety-second, left overnight on the Nek, between the Inquela and the Majuba.
Later there arrived at the entrenchment on the Nek a troop of the Fifteenth Hussars, under the command of Captain Sullivan.
They carried the intervening entrenchment of the enemy and forced their way into the town.
There is endless variety in these fortifications, for advantage was always taken of the natural defences, and almost every important hilltop in Western Vitilevu is crowned with an entrenchment of some kind.
Others were taking down the tents that stood on a plateau near the foot of the mountain on the right, and moving them to the entrenchment on the hill.
On reaching the settlement the camp was formed and an entrenchmentthrown up.
Uffa, the first king, is supposed to have formed here a strong entrenchmentof earth on the site of the present castle, encircled by broad ramparts and a ditch, as under the present Saxon arch.
He notices the present ditch, and a second entrenchment lying between the present ditch and the Shire house, which then stood near the old weighing house on the hill.
It had carried the central entrenchmentof the French, only to be beaten back as the main body between the wood of Tiry and the wood of Laniere opened.
To the numerical superiority of the allies the French could oppose entrenchment and that character in the locality of the fight, or "terrain," which will be fully described on a later page.
The character of Villars and the French tradition of depending upon earth wherever that be possible, was bound, if time were accorded, to make the entrenchment of the open gap formidable.
The original "Castle" is a small prehistoric entrenchment west of St. Catherine's Chapel.
Pummery" is an oblong entrenchment enclosing about twenty acres, variously ascribed to Celts, Romans and Danes, but almost certainly Celtic, with Roman improvements and developments.
After passing the branch railway, and about half a mile short of Lymington, is a fine circular prehistoric entrenchment called Buckland Rings.
Not far from Basing is the great entrenchment of Winklebury Castle, over 3,000 feet round.
Near Beechingstoke, close to the Ridgeway, is a famous British village, the entrenchment containing about thirty acres.
Rawlsbury is a prehistoric circularentrenchment with a double wall and ditch.
The road out of the town to the east runs over the shoulder of Stockbridge Down on which is a fine prehistoric entrenchment called Woolbury Ring.
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