What is "sangars"

Usage examples of "sangars".

The occupants of the sangars were killed to a man, and the assailants rushed onwards.

One of the blokes from the sangars at the SF base reported that he had seen somebody running up the disused railway.

Whether this hoisting of the flag necessarily compromised the whole force is a difficult question, but the Boers instantly left their cover, and the men in the sangars behind, some of whom had not been so seriously engaged, were ordered by their officers to desist from firing.

Some scattered sangars still held their own, though the Boers had passed them.

There, short already of sixty of their comrades, they assembled and began a cautious advance upon the lines of trenches and sangars which seamed the brown slope above them.

Gutierrez had positioned his people with care and built sangars of rock for cover.

Nothing daunted, however, he set his men to work at once building sangars with the loose stones.

The defence had been arranged in the form of small sangars, each held by from ten to twenty men.

The British loss in the action was twenty-eight killed and nearly a hundred wounded or missing, most of which was incurred when the sangars were rushed in the early morning.

The brigade then occupied Vaalkranz and erected sangars and dug trenches.

The soldiers had thrown up lines of sangars, however, and were able, though exposed to a very heavy fire coming from several directions, to hold their own until nightfall, when the defences were made more secure.

Theobald and Lippert, warned by the firing, held on behind their sangars, and were ready for the storm which burst over them.