Harrison immediately began the erection of a quadrangular stockaded fort, with a blockhouse at three of the angles.
One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries.
On the way to the stockaded post the skipper told Little of the mate's doubts and suggested that it might be arranged for one of them at all times to be in touch with the ship after this first visit to Gordon.
The Burmahs had stockaded themselves about seven miles from Rangoon, and it was determined to dislodge them.
To a stockaded village, where the people ordered us to leave.
They reported that they had entered the town, but found it a very large stockaded place; moreover, two other villages of equal size were close to it.
Through many miles of palm-trees and plantains to a Boma or stockaded village, where we slept, though the people were evidently suspicious and unfriendly.
This had a stockaded village, and the men in terror shut the gates.
We crossed a sponge thigh deep before we came to the Mosinga, then on in flat forest to a stockaded village; the whole march about east for six hours.
Their journey of the 12th and 13th led them over low ranges of sandstone and hæmatite, and past several strongly stockaded villages.
Reach Chikuru, a stockaded village, with dura plantations around it and pools of rain-water.
Climbed over range about 200 feet high; then on westward to stockaded villages of Kamirambo.
Every hour brought its tale of terror, true or false, of houses burnt, families massacred, or beleaguered and famishing in stockaded forts.
Lee arrived with his legion, having failed before Augusta, and invested a stockaded fort which formed part of the works.
Johnson, having erected a stockaded fort, which received the name of William Henry, garrisoned it, and returned to Albany.
The stockaded fort was taken, but the troops were repulsed from the main works.
Travellers were murdered, farm houses burnt down, families butchered, and even stockaded forts, or houses of refuge, attacked in open day.
Stockaded forts, too, were constructed at various points, as places of refuge and defence, in exposed neighborhoods.
Several of the small stockaded forts, the places of refuge of woodland neighborhoods, were surprised and sacked with remorseless butchery.
Footnote 51: "They erected a little stockaded fort at the nether end of Lake George, in which they left a small garrison as a future prey for the enemy, a misfortune which might have been easily foreseen.
The regular troops were pushed on by the road to Fort Edward, and posted at a place fifty-six miles from Albany, while a detachment under Major West constructed a small stockaded fort between Fort Edward and the lake.
As a rule they have been constructed on islets or shallows in the lochs, which have been adapted for occupation, and fortified by single or double lines of stockaded defences drawn round the margin.
Scotland and Ireland to the stockaded islands so numerous in ancient times in the lochs of both countries.
In rare instances the body of the work is entirely of stones, the stockaded defence and the huts within its enclosure being the only parts constructed of timber.
The settlers, flocking for refuge into their small stockaded forts, waited in readiness for the dreaded Indian attacks, which were made by two forces totaling some seven hundred warriors.
Meanwhile Judge Henderson, with strenuous energy, had begun to erect a large stockaded fort according to plans of his own.
Illustration: Indians attacking a Stockaded Fort on the Frontier] {4} Colonel Henry Hamilton was the lieutenant governor of Canada, with headquarters at Detroit.
A great part of the town was stockaded in a similar way; and the country houses of the datus and mountain chiefs of any importance were also walled in and had guns mounted.
Several stockaded forts had been built during the summer at different points.
The only places of safety were within the walls of the stockaded forts which were scattered through the region.
In front of the three stockaded sides of the fort a broad, V-shaped ditch was dug, five feet deep.
At the time the detachment was inhabiting a stockaded post we had built in the jungle; and the men were out practising bush warfare in the forest every day.
Altogether there were not less than a hundred and fifty men; but as they drew nearer I saw that they were not at all the sort of force with which I should hope to take so strongly stockaded a place as this.
FN-1] After the erection of a stockaded redoubt there, the Dutch called the place Rondhout, meaning.
This family home, so far from the centre, was stockaded by itself, a double log house, two and a half stories high, with hall through the middle.
After Lisa had stockaded his fort at the mouth of the Bighorn, he sent Coalter to bring the Indians.
Several other detached granite hills have been shot up on the plain, and many stockaded villages, all owing allegiance to Muazi, are scattered over it.
Opposite to the entrance of the stockaded yards, the Company had put up a new office building, and upon the top floor of this were the president's rooms.
Huts could be got up there, and the animals all kept at night in his largestockaded yard.
I know no better instance of the way these stockaded villages were built than the magnificent group of antique earthworks in Dorset and Devon which rings round with a double row of fortresses the beautiful valley of the Axminster Axe.
At Bath, for example, it was the Pax Romana that brought down the town from the stockaded height of Caer Badon, and the Hill of Solisbury to the ford and the hot springs in the valley of the Avon.
At Prairie du Chien French traders annually met the Indians, and at this time there may have been a stockaded trading post there, but it was not a permanent settlement until the close of the Revolutionary war.
For general protection, in cases of the last extremity, however, a stockaded dwelling, not unlike that which we have had occasion to describe in our earlier pages, stood in a convenient spot near the hamlet.
At the distance of a short half-mile from the fortified house, or garrison, as by a singular corruption of terms the stockaded building was called, stood a dwelling of pretensions altogether superior to any in the hamlet.
Instead of stockaded villages, with houses of bark or of clay supported upon a wooden framework, we have pueblos of adobe-brick or stone, in various stages of evolution, the most advanced of which present the appearance of castellated cities.
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