The three now retraced their steps, and in a few days were settled down, Alberdin in his tent in the plain, and Salim and Phedo in their intrenchments on the other side of the low mountain.
Intrenchment and fortification, as far as regards the attack and defense of intrenched camps and fortified places, and the effect of intrenchments and fortifications on the operations of an active army.
The Officers of the Practical Section make surveys and reconnaissances, mark out camps and proportionate intrenchments on a given ground.
At that time they held both sides of the river and had a formidable line of intrenchments on the hills to the north of eight road bridges and two railway bridges crossing the Aisne.
Intrenchments such as the world has never seen before covered the countryside for fifty miles.
Russian correspondents with the armies in Galicia asserted that German troops were interspersed with Austrian troops in the intrenchments in order to raise the morale of the Austrians.
Artillery fire beginning at daybreak and continuing till dusk might break out again at any hour of the night, the range of the enemy's intrenchments being known.
Surrounded by powerful enemies, his great and clear mind had contrived the intrenchments which encompassed his camp, and which had filled his enemies with wonder.
That they lived in fear of foes is sufficiently evident from the number of their intrenchments and fortified camps, to which they would betake themselves whenever their enemies appeared.
When seven miles on the road toward Lexington a courier came to us bearing the news that a large wagon train was coming with coffee and sugar for us, and that Grant had driven Lee inside of his intrenchments around Richmond.
As the Rebels lay behind theirintrenchments that night it may be that they regarded this thundering and lightning of Uncle Sam's siege-guns as betokening his vengeful wrath, and their impending doom.
The Twelfth took a position and lay close up to the enemy's lines that night, fully expecting to have to attack his intrenchments in the morning; but fortunately it did not have this to do.
Crook whose division was in advance, engaged the enemy at an outpost driving him from his intrenchments there to his inner line of defense and captured about 70 prisoners and two or three pieces of artillery.
When the assault on the intrenchments of Ceva was about to be renewed, the Sardinian forces were discerned filing away westwards.
With great labour the defenders threw up intrenchments facing the north side of the island.
The fire of cannon had ceased over there before we retired, and it is clear from that that the whole of the intrenchments must have been captured.
It is probable that the intrenchments were carried in the centre, and Soult evidently sent a body of soldiers straight through the town to secure the bridge.
I think he must have cut off the main body of the defenders of the intrenchments from entering the town and must either have captured them or driven them off.
The negotiations were prolonged until evening, but the bishop declined all Soult's overtures, and the fire from the intrenchments continued.
A short distance away was the line of intrenchments on which the peasants had been for some weeks engaged.
Aided by him, such vigorous writers as Ward were able to throw up temporary intrenchments between the Roman authorities and the indignation of the world.
This made all theintrenchments based upon Marini's statements untenable.
The fight lasted several hours, and the infantry and cavalry were forced to endure a heavy fire out in the open from a long line of Filipinos intrenchments hidden in a line of underbrush and trees.
The enemy was encountered several times along the shore as far as San Luiz and all intrenchments were bombarded by the "Laguna de Bay" some distance to prevent a repetition of the disastrous surprise of the day before.
Next day the two guns supported the Kansas troops in their advance upon the Filipino intrenchmentsand Blockhouse No.
The next day they occupied intrenchments farther to the north.
Colonel Funston, at the head of his troops, took the fire line of intrenchments on the left of the track and moved down on the Tagalans, who had constructed a long line of intrenchmentsparallel with the railway.
The outposts waited in the old Filipino intrenchments and on some parts of the line the attacked Tagalans were allowed to approach within 200 yards.
Suddenly there was a long flash from a low line of Filipino intrenchments 1000 yards to the front.
General MacArthur watched their plans, saw them tearing up the earth forintrenchments and waited.
They followed for five miles through Bacalor, and as far back as their old intrenchments surrounding San Fernando.
As the big rifles roared across the stream the small arms and the Colt's automatic centered a withering fire on the intrenchments to keep the enemy's fire inaccurate.
It is said that a small body of Filipinos could be seen reinforcing the intrenchmentsat the gate of the Caloocan Cemetery.
On the opposite bank Corporal Jensen and his crew, sixty yards from the enemy's position, were ripping the low intrenchmentswith the revolving cannon.
The fire from the Tagalan intrenchments was murderous.
On certain parts of the line the Filipinos were seen building new intrenchmentsand reinforcing the old ones.
The moon was rising behind them, and the valley and the trestle and the rude intrenchments of timber and rock on the opposite ridge and the knolls outlined against the sky grew more distinct.
The Mahometan centre, after a sharp conflict, was again broken, this time irretrievably, and a way opened to the intrenchments of the Emperor.
They were posted at the left extremity of the intrenchments towards the Wallabout.
Burgoyne now strengthened his position with intrenchments and batteries, part of them across the meadows which bordered the river, part on the brow of the heights which commanded them.
Lord Balcarras defended the intrenchments bravely; the action was fierce, and well sustained on both sides.
During this anxious night, Washington was assiduously occupied throwing back his right wing to stronger ground; doubling his intrenchments and constructing three redoubts, with a line in front, on the summit of his post.
A detachment of Americans had arrived there before them, and were throwing up intrenchments on a commanding height at Fishkill.
With a view to its defence, intrenchments had already been thrown up, under the direction of Kosciuszko.
A line of intrenchments and strong redoubts extended across the neck of the peninsula, from the bay to a swamp and creek emptying into the cove.
The rifle pits and intrenchments were almost two miles from the city.
I dared not ask any questions; yet, I at first supposed the intrenchments were taken.
I could see here and there officers beating men onward with the flat of their swords, forcing them toward our intrenchments from which came such a deadly fire.
It was a powerful fortification, with many rifle-pits and intrenchments on the land side, and powerful batteries commanding the river.
The Confederate intrenchments were a dozen miles in length, and were defended by Magruder with a force that allowed less than a thousand men for each mile.
Instead of carrying out this plan, McClellan marched to Centreville and occupied the vacated intrenchments of the enemy.
As soon as the Union army reached Chattanooga intrenchmentswere thrown up.
He withdrew Ewell's Corps that night from Gettysburg and posted it on Seminary Ridge, where intrenchments were thrown up.
The Spanish intrenchments extended around the city, being kept at a distance of about three and one-half miles from the corporation limits.
The main body of the Spaniards was posted on a hill approached by two heavily wooded slopes and fortified by two blockhouses, flanked by intrenchments of stones and fallen trees.
He had fortified San Juan strongly, throwing up on it intrenchments that in the hands of a more determined force would have been impregnable.
The defenders numbered some 3,000 militia, who were stationed in a line of intrenchments a mile long and four miles from the town.
Brown withdrew and united also with the principal forces of the Americans, who attacked the British on the 5th of July, in their strong intrenchments behind the Chippewa.
Prescott and Putnam conducted the retreat by way of Charlestown Neck to Prospect Hill, where newintrenchments commanding Boston were thrown up.
There General Thomas gathered all his troops, and threw up a line of intrenchments to the south of the city.
If we cannot beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond.
He still lay on the north bank of the Potomac, facing Lee's army in its intrenchments about Fredericksburg.
Throughout that night, to prevent a too vigorous return-assault upon Sheridan, the Federal batteries thundered all along the line; and at daybreak on the morning of April 2 the rebel intrenchments were fiercely assaulted.
It was learned also that Vandamme, incited by his natural intrepidity, and unable to resist a desire to attack the enemy whom he saw within his grasp, had left his intrenchments to make the attack.
A battle with them outside of intrenchments cannot be had.
This brigade having been formed at right angles to the intrenchments held by Hancock's command, swept down the whole length of them from left to right.
Warren commanding) met and engaged the enemy outside his intrenchments near Mine Run.
After a successful assault upon Hood's men in their intrenchments the enemy fled in disorder, routed and broken, leaving their dead, their artillery and small arms in great numbers on the field, besides the wounded that were captured.
To do this effectually it will be better to keep the enemy out of the intrenchments of Richmond than to have them go back there.
On the other side they were driven back into the intrenchments which they had captured, and batteries eleven and twelve were retaken by Willcox early in the morning.
Then, should the enemy be forced into his intrenchments in Richmond, the Army of the Potomac would follow, and by means of transports the two armies would become a unit.
In addition to this, there were advanced intrenchments which had to be taken before a close siege could be commenced.
The time, however, was spent in strengthening the intrenchments and making our position generally more secure against a sudden attack.
They had got but a few miles beyond the scene of the battle when they found the enemy's cavalry dismounted and behind intrenchments covering the road on which they were advancing.
The railroad was finished up to that point, the intrenchments completed, storehouses provided for food, and the army got in readiness for a further advance.
In the morning General Sedgwick had been killed near the right of his intrenchments by rebel sharpshooters.
A prompt and successful attack upon the incomplete line of intrenchments across that island would place Charleston in our power.
The whole open space was covered with lines upon lines of soldiers all pushing in one direction, and that where the intrenchments of the Belgians must lie.
Each morning saw the intrepid besiegers closer to the walls, having advanced their intrenchments under cover of the darkness.
Anticipating the French attack, Washington fell back upon Great Meadows, and the hasty and inadequate intrenchments which he there threw up received the name of Fort Necessity.
Aware of these conditions, the French had erected a strong redoubt at the edge of the strand, and posted a large force of musketeers in the intrenchments capping the heights above it.
Moving out of his intrenchments at Carillon, therefore, and supported by Lévis and Bougainville, he advanced up the valley with six thousand soldiers and over a thousand Indians.
To ascend a rising ground and storm well-manned intrenchments has in all ages been a difficult task; at the present day, with the range and precision of our modern weapons, it has come to be almost impossible.
He was down, with his head lower than his legs, among the bushes, and the Arabs began to think of leaving their intrenchments to come and cut off his head or take his body, as is the custom with the infidels.
The grenadiers of the two regiments got near enough to the ditches and the intrenchments to launch their grenades, which had but little effect.
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