The glacis is also finished. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Moultrie] Reference
At the base is a kind of glacis, which runs up at an angle of forty-five from the plain to within fifty, and, in some places, within twenty feet of the foot of the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
Vauban, with half-moons, a covered way and glacis. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
We throw them from the glacis, about the enemies 'ears. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
She leaped on the parapet and the next second was on the glacis. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
The speaker came into clear sight on the glacis a yard or two away. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
He went out again, onto the glacis, and stared at the other two forts. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
On the glacis I saw the dead and decomposed body of a man not in uniform. From Wordnik.com. [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference
This glacis was destitute of any cover, and was dominated by the heights of. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
The erosion of the steepest inclines has produced large rocky outcrops, or "glacis.". From Wordnik.com. [Granitic Seychelles forests] Reference
Then, almost at the same time, both commands moved up the glacis towards the heights. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
On the 26th, trenches were opened, and new batteries began, within a few yards of the glacis. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
I gave the order that no man was to shoot till the enemy had come out of the rocks on to the glacis. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
The volley that they fired yesterday on the glacis of Pampeluna, was the death-knell of their own friends. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
On the brow of the glacis, these intrepid men stood as erectly and as firmly as if they had been on parade. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Captain Orrio and four other officers, who were shot upon the glacis, in presence of the assembled garrison. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
A few rods to the north of the town stands the castle of San Carlos -- a square fort, with a moat and glacis. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
Again there was no moat, just a glacis, so that they had to mount a kind of stone hill leading up to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
Cazenove, his lieutenant, with thirty men, pushed for the fort-gate; himself, with the main body, for the glacis. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
The galloper saluted and spurred forward, up the worn side of the counterscarp and down the glacis towards Mitchell. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
The landscape is characterized by volcanic piles with precipitous slopes, and deeply incised valleys (glacis slopes). From Wordnik.com. [Morne Trois Pitons, Dominica] Reference
The wormlike thread of men wound round picquet after picquet, and throttled the sentries on the glacis, and at the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
I knew glacis and counterscarp on paper; also, on paper, superior slope, banquette, and the other dirty parts of a redoubt. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Gourgues was now on the glacis, when he heard Cazenove shouting from the gate that the Spaniards were escaping on that side. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Regimental commanders to ensure that no personnel are within fifty (50) yards of glacis below Great Bastion (red flag markers). From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
He was wandering in the garden of what is termed the Schwarzpanier House, situated on a slope or glacis in the outskirts of Wahring. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
In action the vessel was to be partly submerged, so that only her three turrets and the top of the armoured glacis would be visible. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
At this moment Captain Biddle was ordered to cause a field piece to be posted so as to enfilade the exterior plain and salient glacis. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
The ladders and fascines were sent for, in all haste, but the men, on the summit of the glacis, were, meanwhile, as targets to the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
The Versailles troops have made good their communications from Montrouge to Issy, and have established batteries on the glacis before Fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference
They were screened from sight by a tangle of brushwood and scrub, while round the glacis of the trenches was crinkled a triple line of barbed wire. 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
The glacis was very narrow, extending only 50 or 60 yards from the counterscarp, and covering barely one-half of the walls from the besiegers 'view. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
Meanwhile they constructed a moat and glacis round the walls of White Town, which, with certain alterations, are the moat and glacis of Fort St. George to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
But it was a sad day, for many scores of our brave comrades lay stretched in death, along the glacis, and on the steep ascent, in the ravines and along the road. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
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