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  • He erected a palissade fort at the place now occupied by the fort St

    Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

  • Within an open space in the centre of the crowd a canvas palissade dyed with a bold black pattern surrounded the Sultan's tents.

    In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

  • The palissade was open on one side, and within it we could see moving about among the snowy-robed officials a group of men in straight narrow gowns of almond-green, peach-blossom, lilac and pink; they were the

    In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

  • Ragueneau, in a letter to the General of the Jesuits, dated March 13, 1650, alludes to the defences of Saint Marie as "une simple palissade."

    The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858

  • [Footnote: "Je passay la nuit à conduire l'ouvrage auquel j'avois destiné le jour précédent, résolu à faire ouvrir la tranchée deux heures avant le lever du soleil, et de la pousser jusqu'au pied de la palissade, pour y placer les fascines, y appliquer l'artifice, et livrer le fort en proye à la fureur du feu."

    A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Francis Parkman 1858

  • -- _Ibid. _, p. 210.] {335} [421] [ "Les troupes, déja débarquées, se portèrent á droite pour s'emparer d'une batterie; et celles débarquées plus bas, principalement composées des grenadiers de Fanagorie, escaladaient le retranchement et la palissade."

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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