tete-de-pont

• Churubusco his left, under Colonel Hoffman, attacked a tete-de-pont at that place and brought on an engagement. —  Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant — Complete
• He lets them enter the tete-de-pont. —  War and Peace
• An attack on the Borgoforte tete-de-pont on the right side of the Po, began on 5th at half-past three in the morning, under the immediate direction of General —  Miscellaneous Prose
• Borgoforte is a fortress on the left side of the Po, throwing a bridge across this river, the right end of which is headed by a strong tete-de-pont, the object of the present attack. —  Miscellaneous Prose
• As I am not far from Borgoforte, I am able to learn more than the mere cannon's voice can tell me, and so will give you some details of the action against the tete-de-pont, which began, as I told you in one of my former letters, on the 4th. —  Miscellaneous Prose

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