| It was dark when we entered the entrenchments which now surrounded the camp. |
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| Consequently, naval barrages were fired on a flat trajectory that was unsuitable for reducing Turkish entrenchments. |
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| Any entrenchments should be made reviewable before or after each redistribution process. |
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| Contravallation: a network of entrenchments around a stronghold set up to prevent any sorties by the besieged. |
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| When there was any danger, the alarm bells rang or a horn was blown, and the people ran to the entrenchments. |
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| By 1862 both sides were building field entrenchments and barricades to provide protection from rifle and artillery fire. |
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| This trend began during the American Civil War, when soldiers had to be trained to spread out, take cover, and dig entrenchments. |
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| The heights became an anthill of activity as Kosciuszko sited artillery emplacements and constructed entrenchments and breastworks. |
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| The amazing story of an officer and of a 54th Indiana private caught up in the assault of confederate entrenchments. |
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| The former entrenchments and bastions drop down steeply to the river. |
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| Strong batteries defended the extremities of this camp, and the interval was strengthened by a breastwork without entrenchments, constructed of the bodies of felled trees, logs, and rails. |
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| In the American Civil War, field fortifications emerged as an essential of warfare, with both armies employing entrenchments to an extent never before seen. |
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| When the German player has concluded placing any entrenchments he wishes or can pay for, Initiative is surrendered, and the Allied player begins his Action Segment. |
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| There were at least seven entrenchments in Genk, which first served as a defence against the Spanish troops and later against the outlawed Lorraine troops. |
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| But to employ this method in all situations, especially in confined areas like the attack of bridgeheads, entrenchments, or fortified houses is an invitation to cruel losses, especially as regards leaders. |
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| In April 1960, at the forefront of his unit, he charged with crazy audacity against a katiba which was armed with a machine gun and other deadly weapons, and which used natural entrenchments as its protection. |
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| Force Montcalm to come out of his entrenchments and face the British Army. |
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| In Scandinavian countries, Arctic Foxes have all but disappeared: the Red Fox now reigns, and his little white relative has been driven into its last entrenchments. |
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| Seeing that the Carthaginians were finally crossing, the Cavares rose from their entrenchments and prepared their army on the shore near the Carthaginian landing point. |
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