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Barricades ( Hebrew : מיתרסים, Mitrasim ) was one of the first documentary films created for Israeli television . It tells the story of two families, one Jewish and the other Palestinian , who both lost children during Israel 's War of Independence , known ...
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n. 1 (plural of barricade English) 2 A place of confrontation, especially in an urban setting. vb. (en-third-person singular of: barricade )
Usage examples of barricades.
Add to this that all the possible chiefs of the barricades were in prison.
I find any Representatives on the barricades, I will have them all shot to the last man.
Four men who had been amongst the most dauntless defenders of the barricades of the Rue Pont-aux-Choux, of the Rue St.
Louis in the Marais, escaped after the barricades had been taken, and found safe refuge in a house, No.
I was one of the sixty Representatives sent by the Constituent Assembly into the middle of the conflict, charged with the task of everywhere preceding the attacking column, of carrying, even at the peril of their lives, words of peace to the barricades, to prevent the shedding of blood, and to stop the civil war.
Since the attempts at rising and the barricades of the morning a rigorous supervision had been organized.
Others told how the barricades of the Rue Aumaire were being rebuilt, how a large number of persons had already been killed there, how they fired without any summons, how the soldiers were drunk, how at various points in the district there were ambulances already crowded with killed and wounded.
At every moment items of news and information came to us from all sides, that barricades were everywhere being raised, and that firing was beginning in the central streets.
As he had foreseen, a moment arrived when the square of the Hotel de Ville was almost devoid of troops, General Herbillon having been forced to leave it with his cavalry to take the barricades of the centre in the rear.
They add that there are twelve or fifteen barricades in the Rue Rambuteau.
The combatants of the Bourg-Labbe barricades are ankle-deep in mud on account of the rain.
Charpentier went there, and brought back the fowling-powder and the cartridges, but distributed them to the combatants on the barricades whom he met on the way.
The other barricades were still weaker than the first, and more feebly defended.
The order was accordingly given that the barricades should be but slightly defended.
Several barricades were obstinately defended, particularly those in the Rue Rambuteau, in the Rue Montorgueil, and in the Rue Neuve Saint Eustache.