intrench

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Admiral Sampson, who was anxious to strike a decisive blow before the enemy should have time to concentrate and intrench, then telegraphed Secretary Long as follows: Mole, Haiti, June 7, 1898.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

Here, immediately after fixing their plan, they began to intrench and fortify the ground they occupied, and made all the dispositions which troops usually do who halt for the night.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James

By a strange and criminal neglect no attempt was made to intrench this position, although it was known that the column might at any moment be attacked by the Zulus.

From The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by Henty, G.A.

Heth, General, at Wilderness, 556, 558, 560; on failure to intrench, 565; at Petersburg, 605, 609; at Farmville, 617.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James

Fearful of being attacked before they could intrench, they immediately set to work with their axes to throw together a brushwood fence, while thirty soldiers were stationed in front toward the river, to repel assault.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler