We need only say here that, despite its cost and the number of men it tied up on guard duty, the trocha failed to restrain the alert islanders.
At intervals of a quarter-mile or more along this well-guarded avenue were forts, each with a garrison of about one hundred men, it needing about fifteen thousand to defend the whole line of the trocha from sea to sea.
This was formerly a regular pirates' track, over which they hauled their vessels, but it was till lately guarded by a chain of forts connected by a military road called the Trocha of Tucuran.
It was not intended to include the trocha, but I argued that if a trocha was not a "fortified place" nothing else was, and I persuaded the commandante at Jucaro to take that view of it and to vise Weyler's order.
Illustration: The Trocha-From a photograph taken by Mr. Davis] The chief engineer in charge of the trocha detailed a captain to take me over it and to show me all that there was to see.
Before I came to Cuba this time I had read in our newspapers about the Spanish trocha without knowing just what a trocha was.
Illustration: Regular Cavalryman--Spanish] Along The Trocha This is an account of a voyage of discovery along the Spanish trocha, the one at the eastern end of Cuba.
From a military point of view the trocha impressed me as a weapon which could be made to cut both ways.
If the insurgents have found as much difficulty in crossing the trocha by land as I found in reaching it by water, they are deserving of all sympathy as patient and long-suffering individuals.
About a mouth afterward he crossed the trocha and entered the province of Puerto Principe, more commonly known as the Camaguey.
This trocha was occupied by a large and important Spanish force.
In emulation of his predecessor, Weyler also tried his hand at trocha building.
At the end of a fortnight they reached the trocha of Jaruco, which had been constructed in the centre of the island.
Having failed to keep the Cubans from invading Pinar del Rio, and then from emerging from that province, Weyler again formed a trocha from Havana to Batabano to prevent them from moving further east.
At once the Spanish forces all rushed in that direction, to head off Maceo and to prevent him from joining Gomez, whereupon the remainder of Maceo's troops crossed the trocha at the centre and north.
In 1871 he besieged Guisa and Holguin, and then, when Gomez marched westward into Camaguey, thence to force passage of the trocha between Jucaro and Moron, Garcia was left in supreme command in Oriente.
Beyond the western trocha Ruiz Rivera succeeded Antonio Maceo in command, and carried on his work with much success.
Menocal passed the Trocha at its most dangerous point between Ciego de Avila and Jucaro.
A few weeks later Quintin Bandera with a small force came from Camaguey and, by wading through the shallow water of the Bay of Sabanabamar, got around the trocha and joined Gomez.
He crossed the trocha with ease, penetrated Santa Clara, and was soon in Matanzas, where Aguirre joined them with 3,200 men.
East of the trocha Calixto Garcia continued his formidable career against such Spanish forces as remained in that region.
By this time the defenders of the trocha were pouring volley after volley at random into the night.
The moon is young; I must cross the trocha before--" "That trocha!
Martinez Campos during the Ten Years' War built the first trocha just west of the Cubitas Mountains where the waist of the island is narrowest.
It was a test of courage to crouch among the charred stumps, enmeshed in that cruel tangle of wire, while the night was stabbed by daggers of fire and while the trocha awoke to the wild alarm.
Not until Weyler's time were these two methods of pacification, the trocha and the concentration camp, developed to their fullest extent.
The Jucaro-Moron trocha had been greatly strengthened since Campos's day.
Both guides, having crossed the trocha more than once, affected to scorn its terrors, and their easy confidence reassured O'Reilly in spite of Esteban's parting admonition.
There are frequent block-houses enclosed by a trocha and with a guard along the railroad track.
Every town and village is surrounded by a trocha (trench) a sort of rifle pit, but constructed on a plan new to me, the dirt being thrown up on the inside and a barbed wire fence on the outer side of the trench.
Well, anyway, they decided to put a barbed-wire trocha around all the mines and the factories.
He had promised the Wahoo Fuel Company to see that the work of constructing the trocha was started that afternoon, and when Violet had telephoned to Mechanics' Hall, Grant and a group of men went to the mines to begin on the trocha.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trocha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
