intrench

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Both the division commanders claim that they were to be relieved, and that they were ordered not to intrench or replenish supplies.

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

The French fleet, surprised and not strong enough to cope with the Spaniards, cut their cables and left, and Menendez entered an inlet which he called St. Augustin, and there began to intrench himself.

From Elsie in the South by Finley, Martha

On the 1st of July, Burgoyne encamped four miles north of Ticonderoga, and began to intrench and to throw a boom across the lake.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?

From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Cibber, Colley

Failure to support his troops and to intrench lost him all he had gained, and he returned to his intrenchments at Bermuda Hundreds.

From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)