If they can advance no farther, they must intrench and hold on until the fall of darkness or a favorable turn in the situation develops.
Officers must be able to choose ground and properly intrench it.
Infantry charged with a resisting mission should intrench whenever there is any likelihood that the cover constructed will be of use.
If the charge is not to be made at once, the troops intrench the advanced position, using sand bags if necessary.
As for her family, her mother curses me for having killed her favourite son, and her brothers pretend that she is mad and then intrench themselves behind her to say that it is impossible.
Tebaldo could then calmly intrench himself behind his mother's refusal, and yet maintain outward relations with Orsino, while waiting for an opportunity to avenge his brother, which was sure to present itself sooner or later.
Depending upon circumstances, there are times when it will be better to intrench near the base of hills and there are other times when it will be better to intrench on the "military crest," which is always in front of the natural crest.
I directed Byrd to intrench on the crest, drawing back the flanks of the brigade so as to be ready for attack from any direction.
The attack was made on the 27th, and failed to carry the enemy's works, though our troops were able to hold positions close to the ditch and to intrench themselves on a new line there.
Here he repulsed all further efforts of Johnston and held his ground till Sherman could bring forward the right wing, when the enemy was forced to intrench and was put on the defensive.
He was to get as near the enemy as possible during the day and intrenchhimself so as to hold his position until the next morning.
An Athens division had been quietly moving along the railroad line, leaving a regiment tointrench themselves before the king's palace at Tatoi.
No effort was made to intrench the lines, to cast up a single shovel of earth, to cut down the brushwood, or form an abattis.
Sheridan at once proceeded to intrench his position; and he awaited an assault from the enemy.
Early was so badly damaged that he seemed disinclined to make another attack, but went to work to intrench himself with a view to holding the position he had already gained.
I can't defend myself at your expense--intrench myself behind your dirty little romance.
I retired this night not knowing but that I would have to intrenchmy position, and bring up tents for the men or build huts under the cover of the hills.
I gave Ord directions to continue his march to Burkesville and there intrench himself for the night, and in the morning to move west to cut off all the roads between there and Farmville.
With these he was able to intrench his men and protect them against surprises by small parties of the enemy.
The walls of Quebec could not withstand a cannonade, and he had long intended to intrench his army on the Buttes, as a better position of defence; but the ground, frozen like a rock, had thus far made the plan impracticable.
A detachment was immediately sent to the place, with orders to intrench itself, and Repentigny, lieutenant of Lévis, was posted not far off with eleven hundred Canadians.
The only opposition was from a troop of Canadians and Indians, whom they routed, after some loss, climbed the heights, gained the plateau above, and began to intrench themselves.
La Corne was sent with a strong detachment to intrench himself at the head of the rapids of the St. Lawrence, and oppose any hostile movement from Lake Ontario.
It is said here that the Protestants of the north will intrench themselves in Londonderry, which is a pretty strong town for Ireland, and that it is a business which will probably last some days.
Conde, conjured them to intrench themselves whilst awaiting them; Don Juan, on the contrary, was for advancing on to the dunes and marching to meet the French army.
On the storm-washed crags of granite, behind fields of ice and drifts of snow which the French cavalry could not traverse, they sought to intrench themselves against their tireless pursuer.
But other sections take a wider range, and intrench on the ordinary concerns of the great body of the people, by the powers they give for unreasonable and arbitrary searches for, and seizures of their property.
It is said Montcalm had been anxious to occupy it, and intrench it with four thousand men, but was overruled on the supposition that the upper town, about which official Quebec felt most concern, would be outside its range of fire.
Failure to support his troops and to intrench lost him all he had gained, and he returned to his intrenchments at Bermuda Hundreds.
Seymour had advanced, contrary to the orders given him by General Gillmore, from Baldwin's Station, where he was instructed to intrench and await orders.
Putnam with the army went to intrench on Bunker Hill.
That he intended to go back into the country until he could get a position in which he could intrench himself and protect his men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intrench" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
