Defiles

It is our Policy to draw the Enemy into the Country, where We can avail ourselves of Hills, Woods, Walls, Rivers, Defiles &c. untill our Soldiers are more inured to War.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 July 1777 1963

After the Defiles we stop at Sinkan on the left bank, where the river spreads out again into the more usual style of Irrawaddy scenery, the valley very wide, the sandy river's edge capped with a jungle of waving kaing, or elephant grass, eighteen feet high, and over and beyond bluey-green tree-clad mountains, not very high, but high enough to be interesting and to raise hope.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

-- We got away early this morning, and were stopped by a fog bank, so I saw the Defiles.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

The Defiles are considered the thing to see; and they are interesting enough; we passed the Third Defile down the river somewhere.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

Expedition, Sikhs and Ghurkas under a Gunner-Officer returning from Chin hills to Bhamo -- Fog banks and the second Defiles -- Jungle scenery -- Shans and Kachins at

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

Defiles as decisive points, 87. as eventual lines of defense, 96. in retreats, 243.

The Art of War Henri Jomini 1824

Defiles and large forests, as well as rocky regions, favor this kind of defense; and the Bocage of La Vendée, so justly celebrated, proves that any country, even if it be only traversed by large hedges and ditches or canals, admits of a formidable defense.

The Art of War Henri Jomini 1824

IV. iv.23 (III,6) [When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts Defiles the pitchy night!] [W: When Fancy,] This conjecture is truly ingenious, but, I believe, the author of it will himself think it unnecessary, when he recollects that _saucy_ may very properly signify

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

Hauteur, at about a [Quarter of an Hour's [5]] distance from the Army, who returned again to the Camp unobserved through several Defiles, in one of which they met with a Party of _French_ that had been

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Immorality Defiles the Church It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named ...

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