They set up their bivouac near the blockade. From LearnThat.org.
We marched the next day to the foot of the Guadarama Pass, where our soldiers, when dismissed in bivouac, had a fine hunt after a wild boar, which they killed. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
On the Dakar, the bivouac is a snapshot of the world of motorsport fans. From Wordnik.com. [Motorsport.com: DAKAR news] Reference
Our bivouac was a clump of trammon trees (elders) at the corner of the orchard which adjoined the farm buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
The troops did not seem to be disposed in battle order, but on the other side of the bivouac was a line of battle -- a heavy rear-guard -- confronting, presumably, General Meade. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete] Reference
To illustrate, we can take the word "bivouac," common enough in military parlance, but rare in civilian speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
This was where our men passed so close to the "bivouac" that they "lighted their pipes by the enemy's camp-fires"; and that is the way romance is woven into history!. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
It was a complete "bivouac" but there was no hardship in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Leaves An Indian Story] Reference
Our goal was no cold bivouac on the hard earth outside. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
He'll visit the bivouac area and observe the tactical exercises. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
The night of the 16th I camped near an old prison bivouac opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Grant came by my bivouac at the crossing of Chickamauga Creek on the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We arrived at the proposed field, where we were to bivouac for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
The grumbler of the day's march is very frequently the joker of the bivouac. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
"The strangest bivouac ever seen under heaven!" said the doctor, looking around. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
We would march about fifteen miles each day and would camp or bivouac for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette] Reference
Our cavalry then went into bivouac, and renewed the pursuit on the following morning. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
(Showing areas: Born to bivouac, Happy campers, Tepid tenters, Indoorsmen) SOURCES: CLARITAS INC. From Wordnik.com. ['A Scandal Waiting To Blow'] Reference
Indeed, it was long after the usual bed-time when at length he consented to leave the bivouac fire. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Outside a wall of similar height was constructed around the tent or bivouac -- few have the luxury of a tent. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
Troops will be required to bivouac, until proper facilities can be afforded for the transportation of camp equipage. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Perched just beneath the 20,320-foot summit of Mount McKinley, Martin Spooner huddled inside his thin nylon bivouac bag. From Wordnik.com. [Dangling At 19,000 Feet] Reference
As no troops came up we moved back a mile or more until we met the head of the column just going into bivouac on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We have watched the review together, and he is as enthusiastic as I over the picturesque effect of this improvised bivouac. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What was our surprise, not long after we had gone into bivouac, to see the lost mule, cargo and owner coming up the ascent. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The U.S. Army's illustrious 10th Mountain Division landed in an astonishing bivouac -- a former Soviet republic, Uzbekistan. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's 'Phase One'] Reference
But the woods being still on fire, Anderson could not go into bivouac, and marched directly on to his destination that night. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The one represented a military bivouac occupying a superficies of 330 square feet, and the other a captive balloon resembling a. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
There were no tents nor waggons to bear out the illusion, but otherwise the scene resembled a bivouac of some expeditionary force. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
I don't know where we can pass the night; but if you will take my advice, you will let us cut some boughs and bivouac where we are. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
On the 21st of October I reached Gaylesville, had my bivouac in an open field back of the village, and remained there till the 28th. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We followed up our victory until night overtook us about two miles from Port Gibson; then the troops went into bivouac for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In our persons and occupation, we looked as innocent and rustic as a pic-nic party on a summer bivouac for fresh air and salt bathing. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Owing to the carcasses of beasts and the corpses of dead men in the stream, the troops had soon to bivouac some three miles farther up. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
There is the bivouac and the time of rest, even though sleeping upon their arms, for all the hosts that were ever marshalled to battle. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
I expected to have to walk some distance to our bivouac of the night; but lo! as I turned to go, there was John with my horse, close up. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Maxims under Colonel Grey along the original left front of the bivouac, and two troops M.M.P., under Major R. White, on the right front. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Lee and I then separated as cordially as we had met, he returning to his own lines, and all went into bivouac for the night at Appomattox. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
As a result, the FARC has been hounded across the border to other countries, and in March the group's No. 2, Raul Reyes, was killed in a jungle bivouac in Ecuador. From Wordnik.com. [A Smarter Way to Fight] Reference
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