The soldiers quickly threw up a picket line and began to dig defensive trenches.

The remaining Iraqi forces abandoned their offensive and drove into defensive trenches.

Leaving the area south south west they came across evidence of defensive trenches being dug.

The tactic of a defensive trench was introduced by Salman the Persian.

He had volunteered with thirty others to man the defensive trench in the woods.

They were also slowed due to defensive trenches around the city that had been filled with flammable chemicals by retreating loyalist troops.

The attacking Iraqis halted the offensive and laid down fire from defensive trenches.

I asked, indicating a work gang apparently digging a defensive trench.

Lawton finally took the defensive trenches on the crater rim by storm.

Sergeant Ulrich took a detail through the southern segment of their defensive trench, but no luck.