What is "entrenchments"

Usage examples of "entrenchments".

They started heaving stones and darts and firepots at the entrenchments in front of Dareton.

As things were, straightening out the traffic jam and getting everybody on the right road took almost as long as smashing through the entrenchments in front of Dareton had.

Hesmucet could see them scrambling out of the entrenchments and running back toward Whole Mackerel.

They'd never been shy about fighting—only the southrons' numbers had kept them in their entrenchments through most of this campaign.

Joseph the Gamecock, as usual, had more entrenchments waiting for him, some on a little knob called Cedar Hill, others farther west on a heavily wooded slope identified on his map as Commissioner Mountain.

He expected Joseph the Gamecock's men to have solid entrenchments on the forward slopes of Cedar Hill, and so they did.

For another, a troop of southron unicorn-riders trotted past the Army of Franklin's entrenchments right on the edge of catapult range.

So did the strength of the entrenchments in which the northerners sheltered.

George knew the northerners had a ring of forts around Marthasville, and entrenchments between those forts, but how many men did they have to put into the entrenchments?

If you attack soldiers in entrenchments when yours are not, you had better have more men than they do, not fewer.

But they ran into another line of entrenchments only a furlong or so past the one they'd just cleared.

If they weren't a pack of cowards, afraid of showing themselves outside of entrenchments, they would already have attacked Marthasville.

Some of their outer entrenchments fell to the Army of Franklin, but only after they were filled with dead men wearing tunics and pantaloons both blue and gray.

One wheatfield had entrenchments in three sides of a square dug through the middle of it.

Rollant had seen up in Peachtree Province how important entrenchments were.