Near the top of the mountain long schanzes or walls were built to offer a place of security for the burghers, while on the top were miles of walls to attract and to inveigle the enemy to approach the lower wall more closely.
At Magersfontein Albrecht and two of his artillerymen operated the cannon which were located behind schanzes twenty feet apart.
They entered upon the night firmly resolved that, when the light of morning dawned, they would once more begin their schanzes and again face the fire of the guns, and beat back the ever-returning odds.
Our burghers lay behind theirschanzes and awaited the enemy.
The mountain was enveloped in a dense mist, and for a long time the men lay behind theirschanzes waiting for what would happen when the vapours were dispelled.
Behind theschanzes the men, shooting sparely because of the loss of the reserve ammunition, at first held their own with little loss.
They also lie beneath the schanzes and let the enemy bombard the dumb guns if he will--till the moment comes to fire; that moment you need never be afraid that the R.
Up in the schanzes the men huddle under waterproof sheets to escape the pitiless drizzle.
The Manchesters are cosy behind the best built schanzes in the environs of Ladysmith.
In a day or two the troops were far too snugly protected behind schanzesand reverse slopes, and grown far too cunning to expose themselves to much loss.
They said that they could very well defend the schanzes which surrounded the source of the river, and that from it sufficient water could be carried to keep the beasts alive, even if the siege were long.
The schanzes are down," screamed the people, seeing the long line of cattle move, and immediately they began to press forward also.
The troops at last got to the cover of the hill, where they built schanzes and bivouacked.
The enemy stuck to their schanzesand continued firing heavily on us daily until the 19th November, when to our surprise they withdrew to Pakani.
The men came out, but to our surprise, as one of us was going to bathe, a volley from the Transvaal Boer schanzes on the east was sent after him.
On going to their schanzes about 2000 yards on the eastern side, they shelled the only remaining redoubt on that side, held by Corporal Gash, C.
The enemy ceased their attacks and went in for volley firing and sniping, coming nearer our redoubts by building schanzesduring the night.
Firing from all the enemy's schanzes was kept up during the night.
This was agreed to, and word was sent round to all the schanzes and redoubts notifying this.
Irish regiments were again assailed in theirschanzes by the persistent Dutchmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schanzes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
