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Usage examples of "bivouacs".
Bugles roused the bivouacs, while the wounded, left all night in the rye, called pitifully for help.
Staff officers directed the troopers to their bivouacs behind the infantry.
In the west the fires of the Prussian bivouacs made thin skeins across the wash of high cloud.
By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles long.