Approach trenches are protected on both flanks by wire entanglements.
These posts should be established in shellholes, which are to be converted into fire trenches, protected by wire entanglements, as soon as possible.
As soon as consolidation begins, wire entanglements should be constructed.
Strong points in support and reserve trenches are prepared for an all-around defense and divided into two or more separate strong points by wire entanglements.
He crept out into "No Man's Land," wormed his way through the German wire entanglements, and reached the emplacement of the gun.
Parapets, sand-bags, wire entanglements, and the bodies of the men were blown high into the air.
There were mines, barbed-wire entanglements, and trenches on the beaches, and along the cliff tops they had constructed very formidable works, in some places ten feet deep.
The capture of the fortress was due primarily to the immensity of the Russian artillery, which maintained a violent, continuous fire, smashing the successive rows of wire entanglements, breastworks, and trenches.
The place had not been easily won, for while the whole wood did not comprise more than two hundred acres or so, there was a perfect network of trenches and apparently miles of barbed-wire entanglements, while machine guns were everywhere.
And there were barbed-wire entanglements in the fields.
There were barbed-wire entanglements everywhere, and every field was honeycombed with trenches.
And when the cans are empty they can build fires in them or hang them, filled with stones, on the barbed-wire entanglements in front of the trenches, so that they ring like bells on a herd of cows to warn them of an impending attack.
On each side of the road were trenches, barbed-wire entanglements, earthen barriers, canals filled with barges.
But the Marne taught the Germans that the surest way to break up the French system of attack was to interpose obstacles, such as woods, wire entanglements, and particularly trenches.
I was rewarded for the risk by getting a glimpse of a dim maze of wire entanglements, and, just beyond, a darker bulk which I knew for the German trench.
The trenches everywhere were deepened, wire entanglements erected, and the construction of dug-outs begun.
This redoubt was surmounted by wire entanglements, the tops of the pickets being just visible when looked at frontally and from our foremost saps.
For one thing, they did not use barbed-wire entanglements half as much as they do now.
The land in between is now quite dry, and does not look like a lake, but like an ordinary field, criss-crossed with low barbed-wire entanglements.
The bombardment had swept away the wire entanglements; and the British had only the greasy mud with which to contend, when they made their dash forward.
Down on the beach that led round from Gaba Tepe--the beach where the troops should have landed--were barbed-wire entanglements and a series of posts manned only at night.
A landing party had been repulsed with heavy losses, finding the beach a mass of barbed-wire entanglements, and machine guns concealed in the cliffs.
Four assaulting columns, each of 50 men, led by the gallant Major Leane, then dashed forward from the trenches, crossing our barbed-wire entanglements on planks that had been laid by the engineers.
Engineers had in the darkness sapped right up to the barbed-wire entanglements, which being cut provided way for the infantry, who, while part held the enemy in front, rushed the redoubt on both flanks.
The trenches are separated from each other as a rule by wire entanglements varying in width from 15 to 60 metres.
New lines of defenses were constructed across Belgium; formidable complex trenches guarded by barbed-wire entanglements; concrete bases for heavy guns connected by railways; and a large fortified station was erected.
The German lines became smothered in dust and smoke, their parapets simply melted away, their barbed-wire entanglements disappeared.
The neighboring division in this direction was held up until the afternoon by wire entanglements.
It was cut and seamed by trenches, and beyond the trenches stood the posts that carried the barbed-wire entanglements.
Barbed-wire entanglements run up and down the gently sloping hillsides.
Nevertheless, the defence-works inside the wood were quickly taken one after another, but more strong points protected by wire entanglements untouched by our artillery fire were encountered.
It was surrounded by a wall and moat as well as by wire entanglements, the impenetrable undergrowth being entangled with a maze of wire.
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