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- noun Plural form of
entrenchment .
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Examples
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Arrayed in the German uniforms -- the attire of lieutenants -- the three advanced toward where they felt sure the main German entrenchments must be.
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The rain resumed, and before long the space within the entrenchments was a lake.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The rain resumed, and before long the space within the entrenchments was a lake.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The rain resumed, and before long the space within the entrenchments was a lake.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The rain resumed, and before long the space within the entrenchments was a lake.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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American lines, we should expose ourselves to almost certain destruction from their artillery; to turn them was impossible; and to draw their troops by any manoeuvring from behind their entrenchments was a thing altogether out of the question.
The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 1842
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During the war, the RAD built bunkers, underground facilities, and entrenchments all over Europe.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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His men extended the natural entrenchments, and Washington decided to erect a stockade, despite its being commanded by wooded high ground.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Washington had pulled his men back to the entrenchments and ordered them to return fire.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Mexican military engineers supplemented the castle with entrenchments and cannon emplacements, but for an adequate defense Santa Anna needed to double the troops he had assigned there.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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