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How to use abatis in a sentence

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It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis.
They were built as a system of separate fortresses, abatis lines, and on forested terrain, tree blowdowns.
There were still labourers out there, struggling to manoeuvre an abatis into position.
To improve their position the Americans felled trees and improvised an abatis.
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.
The maneuver appeared to have the desired effect, since the British did not pursue the retreating French further than the abatis.
In negotiating the abatis, Count d'Estaing was slightly wounded in the arm by a musket ball.
Although the vanguard suffered galling casualties, the French troops did not slow down until they encountered the jagged tree limbs of the abatis.
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.
Ostrogs were often built in remote areas or within the fortification lines, such as the Great Abatis Line.
Examples from Classical Literature
The further we can get through that abatis before they discover us, the fewer we'll have killed.
He got his smashed with a bullet comin' through the abatis, and's bin mournin' about 'em ever since.
In a moment the axemen were upon the abatis of the enemy and hewing it down.
The Rebels tore away their own abatis, and in less than a minute were inside the fort.
Lieutenant Charpentier ordered a clearing made and a circular abatis of underbrush constructed about the camp.
He also carried in and made an abatis between himself and the enemy.
In these cases I threw up an earth-work, and protected it with abatis.
His pioneers were to be equipped to destroy the enemy's abatis.
Fifty yards in front of the abatis the pickets were stationed.
Likewise, the main gun makes short work of wire obstacles, log cribs, abatis and so forth.
In front of the abatis had been planted a battery of four guns.
Here he fought in rifle-pits, protected by abatis and a difficult bayou.
Halfway up the hill lay three rows of abatis, an obstacle composed of felled trees stripped of their leaves and smaller branches with remaining branches sharpened into points.
He put just over pounds 3m into Vancouver-based Abatis and was rewarded with a pounds 181m profit when it was sold last year.
The top three scorers who qualified were Marc Ingram of London House, Andy Smith of Bank of Ireland and Peter Priestley of Abatis Limited.
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