trocha

The word trocha means trench, but the Spanish trochas were military lines cut through the woods and across the island from side to side, and defended by barbed-wire fences, while the felled trees were piled along both sides of the roadway, making a difficult breastwork of jagged roots and branches.

Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III Charles Morris 1877

The trocha is a cleared space, one hundred and fifty to two hundred yards wide, which stretches for fifty miles through what is apparently an impassable jungle.

Cuba in War Time Richard Harding Davis 1890

And we can be assured that the government will not do much more than the actual snaky and insufficient "trocha" made in a hurry.

03/19/2006 - 03/26/2006 2006

And we can be assured that the government will not do much more than the actual snaky and insufficient "trocha" made in a hurry.

Falleth the Caracas viaduct: the end of an era? 2006

Last night I reported my amazement at the fast collapse of the "trocha mocha".

Follow up on La Trocha Mocha 2006

Last night I reported my amazement at the fast collapse of the "trocha mocha".

05/07/2006 - 05/14/2006 2006

But Maceo had pledged to lead his men into Havana, trocha or no trocha.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

But Maceo had pledged to lead his men into Havana, trocha or no trocha.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

But Maceo had pledged to lead his men into Havana, trocha or no trocha.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

He darted from place to place, back and forth across the supposed impassable line of Spanish fortifications stretching north and south across the island some distance from Havana, and known as the _trocha_.

History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest Edward A. Johnson