Our sangars were frequently breached by the 40-lb.
The sides of the nullah were extraordinarily precipitous, and on the edge furthest from us stone sangars were already built as a second line of defence.
In front of the forts a line of sangars extended, the position of each being marked even now by a glare of light above it, which struck up from the fire which the insurgents had lit behind the walls of stone.
Linforth followed by his Gurkhas was seen to reach the top of the cliffs and charge the sangars from the rear.
The road which wound down behind the fort into the bed of the nullah and zigzagged up again on the far side had been broken away, the cliffs were unscaleable, and the stone sangars on the brow proof against shell and bullet.
There were some gullies and a ledge and then some rocks which seemed practicable, and which would lead one out on the brow of the cliff just between the two last sangars on the enemy's left.
And from one and another of the sangars the monotonous beat of a tom-tom came to Luffe's ears.
The defenders were driven out and bayoneted, thesangars seized, and the Chilti force enfolded while reinforcements clambered in support.
Strong sangars were constituted on the forward slope of a hill or ridge.
He succeeded, however, in driving off the enemy; who occupied a number of sangars on the hills, and who could have greatly harassed the main body by rolling down rocks upon them.
The enemy's principal position consisted of sangars blocking the roads to the river, up to a fan-shaped alluvial piece of ground.
Several of the sangars were carried by hand-to-hand fighting; indeed, had the advance not been so well covered by the fire of our guns, it is doubtful whether the position could have been captured.
When they had gone about a mile, desultory shots were fired at them, from a series of well-built sangars facing the termination of the nullah.
It was afterwards found that, if we had taken the path, we should have suffered most severely; as it was discovered that the walls of the sangars had been perforated with lateral slits, commanding every turn.
The battery opened fire, while a party turned the nearest sangars on the right flank.
The next day a fatigue party were sent out to destroy the enemy's sangars and, on the same day, the remaining half of the Pioneers came up.
When the enemy saw that the space was crossed, they left their sangars and streamed down the reverse slope of the hill.
On April 6th they were very active, making two large sangars close to the main gate.
They were apparently building sangars upon the roadway.
The enemy, seeing our men falling back, rushed out of their sangars and opened fire; but were speedily driven in again by volleys from the Pioneers.
It was found that a village lay in the hollow of the plateau, and that sangars had been built all along the summit, and high up on the hill which covered the crest.
Not until they were close in front of the sangars of the Yorkshire regiment was their presence discovered by a patrol which Madocks had sent from his side of the hill.
A second barrier had been built further on, and sangars constructed on every prominent point to meet flank attacks.
The disposition of the enemy's sangars made a turning movement extremely difficult, but a frontal attack on the wall, if stubbornly resisted, could not be carried without severe loss.
Here he sent up a section of his men under cover of projecting rocks to get above the sangarsand fire down into them.
Newly-built sangars at the entrance of the gorge showed that the Tibetans had intended to hold it.
They had built a wall the whole length of a narrow spur and up the hill on the other side of the stream, and in addition held detached sangars high up the steep hills, and well thrown forward.
The capture of the sangars was a signal for a general stampede.
Keeping a few men back to fire on any stone-throwers who showed themselves, Row dribbled his men across the difficult place, and in half an hour reached the rocky ledge above the sangars and looked right down on the enemy.
They had orders not to fire unless they were fired upon, and they walked right up to the walls of the sangars until the muzzles and prongs of the Tibetan matchlocks were almost touching their chests.
His first action was to employ the Engineers and some Cape boys to throw up defensive works and erect sangars on a ridge--some 2000 yards from the camp--which by a sheer accident had not been seized by the Boers.
Several redoubts, lines of intrenchments, and sangars on the heights protect the camps, and a few small guns have been posted on the neighbouring kopjes.
In addition to all this, they had made sangars and piles of stones on the kopjes.
The brigade then occupied Vaalkranz and erectedsangars and dug trenches.
Above all, he was fortunate in his commissariat officers, and it was in the offices of Colonels Ward and Stoneman as much as in the trenches and sangars of Caesar's Camp that the siege was won.
Some scatteredsangars still held their own, though the Boers had passed them.
Nothing daunted, however, he set his men to work at once building sangars with the loose stones.
The occupants of the sangars were killed to a man, and the assailants rushed onwards.
The British loss in the action was twenty-eight killed and nearly a hundred wounded or missing, most of which was incurred when the sangars were rushed in the early morning.
There, short already of sixty of their comrades, they assembled and began a cautious advance upon the lines of trenches and sangars which seamed the brown slope above them.
We have been very busy making our positions secure from attack in case of accidents with barbed wire, besides sangars and trenches.
The 4th Sikhs were sent along the heights to guard the left flank of the advance, and climbing up the sides cleared many sangars of the enemy with great gallantry.
Accordingly, in the middle of the night a sudden rush was made, and after a desperate fight the sangars held by the enemy were taken, but with heavy loss, Captain Ross being among the first killed.
They steadily advanced across the plain and up the hillside to the Tibetan lines, expecting at any moment that from behind the sangars a destructive volley might be opened upon them before they could fire a shot.
Farther on, as we advanced across an almost level gravelly plain, we came in sight of the Tibetan position in a series of sangars on a ridge.
The Tibetans first ran into their sangarsand then ran out again.
That night many men sought the doubtful shelter of olive groves, and built stone sangars to break the force of a biting wind.
The garrison of El Jib had been reinforced, and the enemy held the woods, wadi banks, and sangars in greater strength than before, while the artillery fire was extremely heavy.
Our men had to advance across ravines and beds of watercourses covered with large stones, and up the wooded slopes of hills where stone walls constituted ready-made sangars easily capable of defence.
I found the Manchesters building small and almost circular sangarsof stones and sandbags at intervals all along the ridge.
His range is nearer, he can even reach the Manchesters' sangars with effect, and he is far the most formidable of the guns that torment us.
The various companies get into their sangars at 3 a.
I now noticed rather a commotion among the garrison of the sangars across the Nisa Gol nullah; the men began turning out, and one or two ran towards the higher sangars, evidently passing on some news.
The fun now began as the enemy started plugging away at us from the sangars on the spur, but not much at present from the lower ones, as only the flank of Peterson's company could be seen.
Here the little party formed up, and tried to help any more of their friends who might be struggling through, by heavy volley-firing into the sangars on both sides of the river.
The enemy's position consisted of a line of sangars blocking the roads from the river up to the alluvial fan on which they were placed.
The guns forded the river, and the force ascended to the fan facing the right sangars of the enemy's position.
Then I took one of the sangarsfrom the interior, with the little shelters used by the Pathans when not amusing themselves with rifle practice.
Here I found several sangars which covered the approaches to the bridge, and soon had them down, and then went on to the village of Khogazi, which was about a mile ahead.
Both of these had sangars covering their approach on the enemy's side of the nullah, and any attempt to rush them would have led to great loss of life.
The position was of unusual natural strength, and the disposition of the sangarsshowed considerable tactical ability, being placed on the edge of high cliffs on the left bank of the river.
All the garrisons of the sangars turned out, and I counted them--there were over a hundred in each.
The commander-in-chief rode up the whole length of the nullah, and then walked up the spur on which are shownsangars Nos.
Sangars were built, however, and there were not more than three or four casualties in this part of the field.
The companies behind the sangars fired hundreds of rounds at the Boer trenches, while their comrades below ate and slept.
Stone sangars were built and the companies relieved each other by the men crawling up the slope.
It was a great relief to look back towards Tabanyama, where the discarded biscuit tins were gleaming in the morning light, and say good-bye to that long line of sangars and trenches.
By night we had to man two sangars placed on the hills on each side of the spruit.
It was scarcely entrenched at all, having only a few sangars dotted about as rallying-points.
For that purpose the trusty Manchester battalion is placed there, having roughly constructed sangars for rallying points.
As he and his comrades went back to join their main body, Boer sharpshooters opened fire on them treacherously from the rocks and sangars of Rifleman's Ridge.
As soon as the advance guard could silence the fire in this sangar, which commanded the advance across the plain, the main sangars along the banks of the ravine were to be fired upon.
During the day the enemy kept up a continuous fire from sangars which they had thrown up on the hill-sides.
This advance was covered by the fire of the reserves; the river was forded, and sangars A and B occupied.
These sangars were sunk into the ground and head-cover was provided by a covering of timber and stones.
Sangars had also been erected at the head of these paths and along the right bank of the nullah.
The right of the enemy's position was protected by a snow glacier which descended into the river bed, and also by sangars which were built as far up as the snow-line on the hill-side.
But the enemy had now built and occupied sangars along the cliff at the river's edge, and the work of getting down to the river was one of extreme risk.
Permanent objects like sangars and walls in exposed positions might serve to draw the enemy's fire more than was desirable, so, to deceive him, other positions were whenever possible utilised.
Our men had occupied some trenches and sangars which had been made by our predecessors, Paget's Brigade, I believe, some time previously, and which were all of inferior construction and badly situated.
Fifteen of these were added to our small number, and between us occupied foursangars at the most suitable parts of the kopje.
Some finesangars were on the hill we occupied, and so we were saved the trouble of building any.
On the top we found strong sangars with shell-proof shelters, which had been built by the indefatigable Baden-Powell during his occupation of Rustenburg.
The garrisons of Forts Lockhart and Gulistan had, in fact, their hands full with the tribesmen who had entrenched themselves in sangars all around, from which they kept up such a fire that no one could show himself.
For them to retreat was impossible, for the few hundred yards between the two forts was swept by the Pathan bullets, while their riflemen swarmed in the sangars and behind the rocks all along.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sangars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
