There is still an unchecked blaze inside the defensive barricade.

Saddam's defensive barricade collapsed; in less than 48 hours of fighting, the city fell and 23,000 Iraqis surrendered to the Iranians.

Few folk remained on the wall when the second volley roared in, for they were engaged in tending wounded, in battling flames, and shoring up defensive barricades.

Longbowmen were vulnerable to attack until their defensive barricade was complete, as happened, for example at Patay in 1429.

The wreckage would be a navigational hazard, but perhaps Agamemnon and his cymeks could use them as part of a defensive barricade.

Abulurd had commanded the guardian fleet for the better part of a year already, making sure Omnius did not break through the defensive barricade.

The United States Cavalry remaining at Milk Creek were in disarray, corralled with most of their animals dead and being used as defensive barricades.

The HEPM portrays hospitals as having multiple operational defensive layers outfitted with essential elements necessary to maintain key defensive barricades (Cook & O'Connor, 2005; Reason, 2000).

He and Pawnbroker were piling corpses into defensive barricades.

In response, defensive barricades and earthworks were hastily thrown up; and a series of gun forts were constructed along the south coast to protect key harbours such as Portsmouth.