intrench
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As they advanced the other brigades of Field’s division came up, were aligned before the enemy’s heavy massing forces, and ordered to intrench.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
They intrench and raise batteries; they have engineers.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
It proceeded to intrench itself in political as well as in financial power.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
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 James Longstreet
Pearson had had to intrench himself at Ekowe, where he would be obliged to defend himself, until troops sufficient for his relief could be got together.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
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