On the evening of the 24th Lieutenant Fleming's guns were removed from the old intrenchment in front of Fort MacArthur, and were replaced by two B.
The insurgents who had valiantly and stubbornly held their position, were terrorized by the unexpected onslaught, and the whole line in the east side of the bridge sprang from the intrenchment and fled northward along the railroad embankment.
They had ensconced themselves in a large barn, built of logs, and had fortified it by a slight intrenchment and a line of abatis.
From the foot of the height anintrenchment extended to the river, ending with a battery at the water edge, commanding a floating bridge.
I deem it safe to say that there were no large engagements where the National numbers compensated for the advantage of position and intrenchment occupied by the enemy.
At length the works of this virago were stormed by a regular detachment, which, after an obstinate and dangerous conflict, entered the intrenchment sword in hand, and burned the houses and plantations.
The manifest confusion produced among the French by these previous measures, and by the fire of the Centurion, which was well-directed and sustained, determined Mr. Wolfe to storm this intrenchment without further delay.
His design was, first to reduce a detached redoubt close to the water's edge, seemingly situated without gunshot of the intrenchment on the hill.
The enemy, intimidated by their cool and resolute behaviour, began to abandon the first intrenchment on the left.
The breastwork was raised eight feet high, and the ground before it covered with an abbatis, of felled trees, with their boughs pointing outwards, and projecting in such a manner as to render the intrenchment almost inaccessible.
Posna, where he found the Russian army, under count Soltikoff, strongly encamped, having in their rear that city and the river Warta, and in their front a formidable intrenchment mounted with a great number of cannon.
The parapet of the intrenchment was too high for my horse to jump, so, riding a short distance to the left, I entered through a low place in the line.
Within ten days of the close of the month, the weakened lines of intrenchmentwere again assaulted.
This was done to hinder their march until the Spaniards had completed a strong intrenchment which was being built at a suitable place on the route.
They learned, however, the disquieting fact that six miles farther on was another strong intrenchment which could not be avoided, the country permitting no choice of roads.
It was the surplus of one or two thousand troops which the intrenchment would not hold.
The men of Ashantee are great fighters, and have such a contempt for death that they will continue their attacks upon a European intrenchment in spite of appalling losses.
Besides this natural fortification, we had a continued intrenchment all along the edge of the hill, from Beauport to the Sault, so traced and conducted by M.
The hollow upon the right of the height, where the intrenchment was the worst of all my lines, was the post of the companies of marines (C); the regiments lined the rest of the trenches.
But the Turkish guns struck mainly at the intrenchment of the town.
The first, fiery by nature, hurried forward so eagerly that he reached the intrenchment before others, and came near destroying his regiment, for he had to meet a salvo from several thousand muskets.
From the platform of this cavalier A, Messire Charles d'Amboise had observed the intrenchment which the besieged had raised during the night; he therefore resolved to bring all his efforts to bear on the salient and the boulevard.
They dispersed or took refuge along the intrenchment from Z to D, which was less exposed.
The besiegers had no outposts; but their army encamped in front of the Oppidum, and at a distance of about six hundred paces from it, was intrenched behind barricades of timber; the intrenchment presented an extended front.
On the plateau towards the north arose, in front of the boulevard D,[37] an intrenchment of earth, with barricades of trees and large gabions screening two culverins.
Messire Charles d'Amboise sent a reinforcement, but the bombardiers of the tower G, at the risk of killing some of their own party, discharged stone balls and leaden bullets over the intrenchment at the fresh troops.
The intrenchment made behind the salient was well manned, and the Brenn trained his men to pass out in a body through the two egresses formed at the extremities of the intrenchment, so as to take the assailants in flank.
Meantime, the Romans demolished several houses adjoining the head of the bridge, and made use of the debris to form a semi-circular intrenchment of contravallation, ending against the river at its two extremities.
Sigild kept advancing, and all the warriors not engaged in defending the intrenchment formed behind him in a column which became denser each moment.
But the intrenchment was strong, and furnished with thick pointed stakes.
A wide piece of the wall, above the oblique intrenchment made by the besieged, immediately split, bent forward, and fell en masse outside into the fosse.
Yet a fourth time it clambered up again, and this time it lipped the brink and poured over the intrenchment at the top.
It is easy enough now to follow the footsteps of Mrs. Moore, dangerous as was that journey of hers, from the intrenchment to the corner of No.
Not a foot of all the space bomb-proof, an apology for an intrenchment such as "an active cow might jump over.
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 intrenchment on the hill.
On the 15th they passed the intrenchment unfinished and undefended, and on the 16th day came very joyfully to the long desired river.
It would take them eight days to climb up, and if they were devils, no intrenchment could keep them out.
The Buccaneers, struck with compassion at the quantity of blood running into the rivulet, spared the survivors, and returned a second time into the intrenchment with only one man killed and two wounded.
Lines of intrenchment and temporary works may sometimes serve him as a sufficient protection.
The simplest arrangement for a continuous intrenchment is the cremaillière or indented line.
The enemy had thrown up an intrenchment and were prepared to receive an attack.
Chadd's Ford was defended by an intrenchment and battery, with three field pieces, and a howitzer.
The fortifications consisted of extensive outer works, within which was an intrenchmenteight or nine feet high, boarded and fraized.
He had erected a formidable intrenchment within the breach, and had sunk two mines beneath the ruins in readiness to blow the assailing columns into the air.
The town was surrounded by an intrenchment as faulty in location as construction.
During the night I visited the several commands along the intrenchment on the south side of the Chickahominy.
General Lee immediately commenced the construction of an earthwork for a battery on our left flank, and a line of intrenchment to the right, necessarily feeble because of our deficiency in tools.
As long as the Virginia closed the entrance to the James River, and the intrenchment on the Peninsula was held, it was deemed possible to keep possession of Norfolk.
Finding that the distance was too great, and the fire of the enemy little to be feared, he pushed closer on, and gained possession of an old intrenchment near the defenses, whence he opened fire with vigor and effect.
The assailants carried the intrenchmentand drove the Hau-Haus across the river, these suffering heavy loss from the firing of the left column, who from their position commanded the course of the stream.
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