It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls. |
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Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis. |
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They were built as a system of separate fortresses, abatis lines, and on forested terrain, tree blowdowns. |
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There were still labourers out there, struggling to manoeuvre an abatis into position. |
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To improve their position the Americans felled trees and improvised an abatis. |
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It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls, so that Roman missile engines could more effectively engage them. |
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The maneuver appeared to have the desired effect, since the British did not pursue the retreating French further than the abatis. |
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In negotiating the abatis, Count d'Estaing was slightly wounded in the arm by a musket ball. |
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Although the vanguard suffered galling casualties, the French troops did not slow down until they encountered the jagged tree limbs of the abatis. |
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The Savannah Defensive Perimeter is defined as the Savannah River to the north, the ring of abatis to the east and south, and the Yamacraw Swamp to the west. |
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Ostrogs were often built in remote areas or within the fortification lines, such as the Great Abatis Line. |
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