Our fascines shall be the bodies of the first of our men who fall in the fosse.
It was proposed to Villars to makefascines to fill up the fosses of Denain.
Faggots, differing from fascines only in that they are longer, and made of stouter branches of trees or underwood.
Fascines placed to oppose the violence of the surf.
Such a form will result from laying logs or fascines lengthwise on the parapet, supported at intervals by sods or other material, Fig.
A fascine revetment= is made by placing the fascines as shown in Fig.
If more than two tiers are used, the separating fascines should be anchored back.
Fascines are made in a =cradle= which consists of five trestles.
Interior slopes were revetted with gabions, crowned by fascines and sand bags.
Three rows of fascines are usually placed on the top of the gabions to increase the height.
The regiments were at once set to manufacture fascines for the siege, and this work proceeded quickly, the orchards and plantations furnishing an abundance of wood.
The fascines were used for filling up ditches, and the advances against the town were pushed forward with vigour.
Fascines and scaling ladders were in evidence, as were additional troops which had arrived the previous day under the command of Major General John Lambert, who had sailed from England at the end of October.
The depleted columns which did reach the works could not scale them because an Irish regiment and a West Indian regiment, entrusted with the responsibility of carrying the fascines and scaling ladders, had failed in their duty.
A long double line of men formed a transport corps, and passed a never-failing supply of fascines to the workers who stood in the water and kneaded firmly the adhesive mass.
For two days 1,500 men were employed in making fascines of long, thick reeds tied in large bundles, in the centre of which was concealed a mass of about fifty pounds of stiff clap.
While some drove the enemy back, others brought boxes and beams, fascines and sandbags, to repair the breach.
Earth was brought in sacks or baskets and piled up, stockades repaired, and fascines and gabions mended.
The officer, whose duty it was to have prepared fascines for the purpose of filling the ditches, had neglected his work; and, at 2 a.
Accordingly he began to throw up bastions with fascines of tow; but the result was far from perfect, as he himself confessed.
However, he began the work, in the way you know, with those fascines of tow.
Faggots dipped in tar were laid against the fascines and gabions and, in a short time, columns of fire and smoke rose from all parts of the works occupied.
Vast numbers of mules were seen, bringing fascines to their works.
Good gabions protected them in front, and there was a plentiful supply of fascines lying all about.
Pontoon bridges and fascines in great numbers are being sent forward to the military foreposts.
The pioneers immediately set about laying a dam of fascines across the ditch.
He forgot to eat, even, when thefascines were in making.
The next time, to his extreme delight, he found that fascines were to go in his cart.
At length a number of fascines used in the siege were brought, and these being lowered into the well, the elephant was induced by his driver to place them under his feet.
But, being unwilling to leave the water, he after a time would allow no more fascines to be lowered; and his driver had to caress him, and promise him plenty of arrack as a reward, to induce him to raise himself out of the water.
They were to be preceded by an Irish regiment bearing the fascines and ladders.
These were to be preceded by a West India black regiment with the necessary fascines and ladders.
Less frequently it consisted of a stack of brushwood or fascines built up from the bottom and strengthened by stakes penetrating the mass so as to keep it from spreading.
But he fell at the edge of the fascines on which the turret stood all cocked on one side, and his spear stuck into them under water, and by a mighty effort he got to the side, but could not get out.
At the edge of the moat opposite the wooden tower, a strong penthouse which they called "a cat" might be seen stealing towards the curtain, and gradually filling up the moat with fascines and rubbish, which the workmen flung out at its mouth.
The Franks immediately threw a quantity of fascines into the fosse, brought ladders, and rushed in great numbers on the ruined wall, which still rose about six feet above the interior level of the cite.
Rincourt formed them into brigades of ten; and their duty was to bring ammunition, prepare the provisions, repair military accoutrements, and make fascines and bags.
Towards evening the embankment was barely twenty feet from the quay wall, and the water--rather low at that season--ran through the sunken fascines without endangering the stability of the dam.
The boulevard, E, had been well furnished with fascines and gabions that very night.
Whether the lighted straw had not been quite extinguished, or the besieged had thrown more burning brands into the ditch, somefascines took fire, burning the wounded, who uttered the most dreadful cries.
Notwithstanding the darkness, he could see a black mass deploying in silence; then he heard the fascines rolling into the fosse and the wood cracking under the men's feet.
The men who guarded the north front had orders to cut an opening in the rampart twenty paces wide, and to throwfascines and clods of turf into the ditch, and have wattles ready to close the opening instantly.
There were neither gabions nor fascines nor stakes for palisades.
They filled up the ditch in front of the tower p,[34] not without difficulty protecting themselves with fascines and mantelets.
With the permission of Amherst, Putnam caused a number of boats to be prepared with musket-proof fascines * along the sides, so as to form a shelter from the fire of the enemy.
Fort Arnold is built of Dry Fascines and Wood, is in a ruinous condition, incompleat, and subject to take Fire from Shells or Carcasses.
A train of three hundred carts, laden with fascinesand hay, followed the troops.
The fascines gone, the leathern jackets were but the sorriest protection, and at twenty to forty paces hardly a bolt failed to bring down its man.
But now the line was at the moat, the fascines were hurled into it, the planks and beams followed helter skelter, and a few of the boldest of their men-at-arms dashed out on the footing thus made.
Meanwhile the Advanced Guard tank had swung round, and crossing over the fascinesof the two Infantry tanks moved forward with its own fascine still in position.
As already described these tank fascines and the “fitments” necessary to fix and release them were made by the Tank Corps Central Workshops.
Meanwhile at the Plateau station tanks were tuned up and tank fascines fixed.
There are quantities of hurdles and fascines being made; which, as I hear, are to be employed in one of two different plans.
Fascines and hurdles lay useless; no attempt was made to relieve Philipsburg.
They began to rig their ships, repair their small craft, build galleys, cast bombs and bullets, and prepare fascines and gabions; while brigadier Murray employed his men in making preparations for a vigorous defence.
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