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

Baum also halted, posted himself on a high ground at a bend of the little river Walloomscoick and began to intrench himself.

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

Under the attack of superior forces, the Americans had managed to hold their ground and they now began to intrench.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

They were proceeding to intrench themselves, but were driven into their tents by a drenching rain.

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