Should he keep them within his little intrenchment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

It was the intrenchment of his contempt that Lord Newhaven missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Pottage] Reference

An intrenchment was thrown up from right to left, behind which our army formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference

Our army having retired beyond their intrenchment, which extended from Vanbrunt's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference

The battle lasted until dark, and gave us possession of part of the intrenchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Once, in action, he was leading a detachment of infantry through an intrenchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

An attempt was made by the Hessians to storm the American redoubt and intrenchment at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

As he afterwards remarked he could not have made a better intrenchment if he had worked a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid]

Some of Wheeler's men, would, at times, make a stand behind an intrenchment and contest our advance.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference

When we got there, we found ourselves close to a small intrenchment, and the men in it opened fire on us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

He says that a few miles below Lake Pepin his attention was attracted by an elevation which had the appearance of an intrenchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

This intrenchment was the nearest to the city made by any American organization, and in this the regiment remained until the surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference

It is impossible to explain in articles of this character the mysteries of intrenchment and fortification, so that they will be comprehensible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The Zouaves surmounted the almost impassable cliffs, attacked and carried two lines of intrenchment, and, in the teeth of a murderous fire, forced a third.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

Considering that the justices were mostly Congregationalists, the enactment amounted to an intrenchment of the Standing Order at the expense of the dissenters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

Necessity, a mere intrenchment at Great Meadows, and the French held entire possession of the Ohio valley, where no English trader or pioneer dared show himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

The genie had fled thither as to his last intrenchment, and upon that the success of the combat depended, which would have been successful, and without danger to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference

Our intrenchment was so weak, that it is most wonderful the British General did not attempt to storm it soon after the battle, in which his troops had been victorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference

Hardly had he lifted the last piece to its place, when the pack came rushing about him, snapping and snarling, but at first not testing the strength of his intrenchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference

When it reached the place of intrenchment there were altogether about one hundred men at that point of the ridge, consisting of men from the Tenth Cavalry and of the Rough Riders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference

Congress, it would have been in the intrenchment before Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Autographs] Reference

He could see their intrenchment, and the tents and ruder quarters behind it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

He remained with the British, and was killed by a shell in the intrenchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference

They marched up till within forty paces of the intrenchment, and then stormed it like British soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference

Sir Colin Campbell marched over it, and in safety reached the intrenchment in which Windham was shut up.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference

As soon as the Spanish intrenchment came in sight the signal was given and was promptly answered by the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference

This position was, at the same time, the most salient and the most elevated in the entire line of intrenchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Fort Henry to Corinth] Reference

This was an intrenchment front, sloping as he approached it, but with a sheer drop of some three feet on the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands] Reference

We cannot tell when this practice of intrenchment began; it was matured gradually, like all other things pertaining to the art of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

Terrific was the fire they all this time endured; and for some moments it seemed impossible that the intrenchment could be won under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference

This guard would be encountered first and, as they were in a natural intrenchment, would be able to hold the enemy for a considerable time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant — Complete] Reference