outwork

From here she could see a portion of the outworks.

The following morning, as promised, it was the turn of the outwork.

It was to take several years before the outworks were completed.

They are part of a little outwork the local men began before the enemy arrived.

Those fashioned and very frequent outwork baskets came from the whole family.

Glorious: and yet, alas, it is still but the outworks.

The entrance passes through this outwork wall close to where it joins the other.

The eastern and western outworks are accessible but heavily overgrown.

The three companies made camp in the outwork.

That afternoon, his little army came up against the outworks around Wesleyton.

Also three outworks, ravelins, were built in front the main fortress wall.

Yet, Murray decided to wait until June 11 before mounting an assault on the outwork.

At the more important places they added one and sometimes two ditches, together with outworks, so as to render regular approaches necessary.

There was another outwork on the eastern slope.

"We lost the outwork on our part."

Surely the college, though somewhat rural, was at least one of the outworks of, say, material civilization.

On 16 January 1809 the main Spanish outworks were in French hands.

Entrances are to the south-east and north-east (with possible outworks).

The militia captured a few outworks but their organization soon unraveled in the face of opposition by professional soldiers.

They reinforced the castle by constructing several outworks.

They landed 400 or 600 sailors and about 50 marines, and planted a standard on one of the outworks.

On 3 June, 350 Frenchmen surrendered the outwork after a bombardment.

The castle was connected with Andelys through a series of contemporary outworks.

We know also that the defences were patched up with a new outwork for the south-east gate.

When the battle ended on the following day, one or more outworks remained in the possession of Mataafa.