East of the Roye--Frise line began the French portion of the old Somme battlefield; the ground here in places had been heavily shelled, but was quite negotiable by heavy tanks.
The country between our front line and the line Roye--Frise was in every respect suitable to tank movement.
They had brought with them the portable chevaux-de-frise carried by the infantry in the Swedish service.
Behind the chevaux-de-frise a broad and deep trench had been cut, into which our men must have been precipitated had they succeeded in surmounting this huge barrier.
It was found out afterwards that the woodwork of the cheval-de-frise was heavy, bristling with short, stout sword-blades and chained together.
Such a chevaux-de-frise would defend a trench against the most courageous regiment.
No creature without a long proboscis or bill could penetrate the chevaux-de-frise of stamens, and to reach the honey the hummingbirds had to probe to their eyes.
The report that Henry Frise was leading home his half-crown wife preceded the arrival of the couple, and when they entered the village all the inhabitants turned out to see the spectacle.
Mr. Henry Frise lived in a cottage that was on lives, so the squire was unable to bring compulsion to bear on him.
Several rows of chevaux-de-frise had been sunk about half a mile below Mud Island, which were protected by the guns of the forts, as well as by the moveable water force.
To prevent ships from passing the forts, chevaux-de-frise had been sunk in the river, and a boom extended from bank to bank, which was covered with immense chains stretched at some distance in its front.
Fayolle's left now commanded the light railway from Combles to Péronne, his center held the great loop of the Somme at Frise village, while his right was only four miles from Péronne itself.
The barbed-wire chevaux-de-frise are often covered by snow in a night and have to be renewed.
The front between Gommecourt and Frise in the latter part of June was covered in this manner.
Chevaux-de-frise would keep the cavalry in check; and as for the artillery, redoubts should be thrown up under cover of yon woods.
A work had been commenced on the Jersey shore, opposite Fort Washington, to aid in protecting Putnam's chevaux-de-frise which had sunk between them.
On the capture of the forts, the American frigates and galleys stationed for the protection of the chevaux-de-frise slipped their cables, made all sail, and endeavored to escape up the river.
While the fort was thus menaced, the chevaux-de-frise had again proved inefficient.
Washington still hoped to keep possession of Red Bank, and thereby prevent the enemy from weighing the chevaux-de-frise before the frost obliged their ships to quit the river.
The works at Billingsport had been attacked and destroyed, and some of the enemy's ships had forced their way through the chevaux-de-frise placed there.
The chevaux-de-frise in the river had been constructed under his superintendence.
To the south of Frise the Germans were preparing an attack, but were prevented from carrying it out by French and British barrier fires.
The capture of Frise brought the Germans into a cul-de-sac, for their advance was still barred by the Somme Canal, behind which there lay a deep marsh.
In Artois, Champagne, and the Argonne Forest there was some strenuous mine fighting, and at Frise in Santerre the Germans gained some ground only to lose it a little later.
The real objective of the attack appears to have been an advance south of Frise in the direction of Dompierre, but this effort met with little success.
On the canal between Frise and Biaches, they were violently bombarded in 1916.
Before leaving the island, a chevaux-de- frisewas thrown across the channel to intercept the progress of Carleton's vessels up the lake.
The boom and the chevaux de frise so obstructed the current of the river (here very strong), that the water was raised two or three feet above them, and pressed upon them heavily.
Between the lines of the opposing armies lay the river Somme, which here in the vicinity of Eclusier and Frise spreads out into a pond with marshy banks, and innumerable pitfalls and bogs.
He told of Marcelle Semmer, a young orphan girl of eighteen, living in the little village of Eclusier, near Frise on the river Somme, at the beginning of the war.
My landlady, qui friseses cheveux et la cinquantaine, enjoys the name of Tribble.
Qui frise ses cheveux et la cinquantaine, literally, "Who curls her hair and fifty summers.
After this battle the fleet and army united, cleared away the chevaux-de-frise across the Delaware, and took the forts commanding them after some hard fighting.
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