intrench
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Morris
The information was sent up to general head-quarters, and orders were sent General Ransom to intrench his brigade along the crest of the hill.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Here the Yankees will intrench themselves, and cannot be dislodged.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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 Joel Tyler Headley
Orders were therefore issued, by the provincial commanders, that a detachment of a thousand men should intrench upon this height.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
