Makhad, dividing the district into two main portions.
The drainage from the northern half flows southward into the Teri Toi itself, and northward into the parallel stream of the Kohat Toi.
The stockades are crowded with huts, and the children have but small room to play in the narrow spaces between.
At last one day the caravan halted earlier than usual, and the pagazis were immediately set to work to cut down young trees, with which stockades were formed round the camp, and every man remained under arms.
While one party rushed at the gate to break it open, the remainder halting fired their muskets, but as the stockades were thick no injury was inflicted on the garrison.
With a thousand men, and with artillery to demolish the stockades and destroy the frontier posts, he proposed to drive the settlers back across the mountains.
In early days men seem to have frequently dug their entrenchments or planted their stockades on the summit of hills.
So that the terrace gardens may have yielded plentifully then, and were probably surrounded with stockades to protect them from the ravages of the beasts of the forest.
Farms were abandoned; remote settlements were left to their fate; while forts and stockades were crowded with refugees.
The Creeks began their depredations upon the frontier at the same time that Tecumseh's warriors were fighting against Harrison, and soon the whites of the southern country were forced to fly to the forts and stockadesfor protection.
Three overseers and owners refused to leave their property, mounted cannon on stockades around their houses, armed their servants, and determined to give the Indians a severe drubbing if they ever dared to attack them.
Lielvardis arrives and reveals that the German knights have captured a number of Latvian stockades and built their own stone castles, and are imposing Christianity at the point of the sword.
Still the back and sides of the house were protected, and until the stockades were destroyed the besiegers could make no use of their ladders.
The capture of these stockades began and ended the operations on that day.
General Ching was as sulky as a bear when he was informed that I thought it advisable to take these stockades the next day, and to attack on this side of the city.
The enemy had constructed some stockades at Fushan, outside the ruined city of that name, and Gordon attacked these on the 4th April.
His object was that he had written to the Futai Li, who had in turn passed the statement on to Peking, to say that he had his stockades on the edge of the ditch, and merely wanted a boat to get into the city.
He found his allies quite cowed, afraid even to open the gates of their stockades to admit him and his men, and the enemy drawn up in imposing lines at a distance of about 1500 yards.
The reason of the rebels defending these stockadesso badly was on account of the ill-feeling between the chiefs in charge of Quinsan and Chunye, and the neglect of the former to furnish rice to the latter.
The next day he captured all the stockades on the southern, or, more correctly, the western side of the Canal, but the Taepings still held a strong stone fort on the opposite side, which defied all the efforts of the Imperialists.
The capture of the southern stockades was followed after a day's interval by the evacuation of the latter and the flight of the garrison, who however pillaged the town as far as they could before leaving.
The breastwork was carried by a small part of his troops, but the stockades in its rear were never reached.
The next day the stockades were evacuated, and within another week the fortified villages of Tsipu and Kahding were also taken.
Gordon himself, with a mere handful of men, captured three more stockades and a stone fort that he said could have held out after all the other positions had fallen.
The East Gate, or Low Mun, stockades were selected for the first attack, and as the scene of a reverse to Ching's force on 14th October, the Chinese commander was specially anxious to capture them.
The wet weather and the unexpected nature of the attack explained this easy success, for the stockades were strong and well placed.
Stockades and block houses are to be seen all along the line, some large enough to hold a regiment, but most of them are left vacant.
Order read from General Hamilton stating that Van Dorn was concentrating at Pontotoc for another raid on this railroad, and ordered that stockades be built along the road, and that we be on the alert.
Stockades were hastily stuck in the ground, banked up with a miniature parapet, flanked with the two usual bastions that could send a raking fire along all four walls; and Lisa was ready for trade.
He grumbled when we passed the stockades at the entrance of the river because they were not manned; and he grumbled at every dismantled stockade that we passed.
Sir A Campbell did not much like to consent, but, as the stockades were not higher than breastworks, and the Burmahs not in very great force, he eventually yielded to the Colonel's arguments.
Their stockades are usually built of any thick teak timber, or rather squared trees, which are much too strong to be penetrated by any other than battering cannon, and, in consequence, were invariably carried by escalade.
Occasionally the right lines of stockades presented themselves, but we found nobody in them, and passed by them in peace.
The guns on theirstockades and war-boats are equally defective from bad powder, and the hammered iron bullets.
We had done all our work, and having employed the Burmahs for a few days more in destroying the stockades at the entrance of the river, they were paid and discharged from his Majesty's service.
As the space between the stockades filled with the exultant Bahima, hundreds of the enemy flung down their arms and begged for mercy.
Two stockades erected across the road were defended, but were turned, with the loss of two men wounded, and Ton Hon was occupied without further fighting.
Stockades had been built across the road and were stubbornly defended by the enemy.
Four stockades were taken without loss on our side, and Saw Yan Naing and his following fell back for the time.
By the 9th of March the operations against the Lepei tribe had been completed, all their villages or stockades taken, and large quantities of grain captured.
It was impossible to allow Captain O'Donnell to attackstockades and to turn large bodies of the enemy out of strong positions without artillery.
A few days later they returned and destroyed the village and stockades unopposed.
My twin brother was called with his master, to the teak jungles of the South; but I have been with the trap-stockades till now, when they send me down to these plains with the catch of all seasons.
True to her training--there being no trap-stockades near--the toiler was taking them home!
That these stockades are distinguished by Government," Kudrat Sharif replied.
Several years ago he was carried home from the Chief Commissioner's elephantstockades by their governing mahout, Kudrat Sharif.
But after some days, when Nut Kut's excitement sleeps, we shall be distinguished if Son-of-Power chooses to come to the stockades and consider him.
Kudrat Sharif spoke softly; and the mahouts of the Chief Commissioner's stockades assented.
I am exalted to carry back to my stockades the story of the manner of your work, Son-of-Power," he began.
Back of his park, more than three quarters of a mile away, were the stockades of the Chief Commissioner's elephants.
The men of the stockadesbowed their heads in grave acknowledgment.
This was the coming of Nut Kut to the Chief Commissioner's elephant stockades at Hurda.
Now the elephants of the Chief Commissioner's stockades gave account of themselves.
It was the youngest mahout of the Chief Commissioner's elephantstockades of Hurda, who spoke.
I knew then that the plan was for joy, as soon as we knew enough to take it--" On the third morning of the pig-sticking Ian Deal rode by the elephant stockades in Hurda just as the American passed.
And play they did, as the flotilla pushed forth and spread and left the stockades far behind; stockadesplanted on the scene of last year's massacre.
The gigs and pinnace, which kept well up with them, had now got close to the fort, the stockades rising on the projecting point, high above their heads.
Upwards of an hour they had been under fire, and for nearly forty minutes more they were passing the stockades exposed to it.
But several bands were stationed around the Fort, in such a manner as to cut off retreat from the stockades should escape be attempted.
Twilight does not tarry long upon the plains; and when the maidens reached the confines of the Fort, the stockades and the enclosed buildings were a mere dusky blur.
To-morrow the chief goes to Big Bear, to press him to dig up the hatchet; so Messieurs, look to your guns in the Fort, as you will have more than three hundred enemies under the stockades before the rising of the next moon.
Instead of an apology, however, came a message, to the effect that if the British ships attempted to pass the stockades on the banks of the river, they would be fired on.
The guns in the forts were also taken and the stockades burnt.
The steamers fired for many hours shot and shell without intermission, which destroyed and set on fire the enemy's stockades and other defences.
The prisons of Richmond were emptied and the stockades at Salisbury and Andersonville over-crowded with these men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stockades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
