Bivouac
['bɪvʊæk;'bɪvwæk] or ['bɪvuæk]
Definition
(n.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
(n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
(v. i.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
(v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. and v. n. Halt for the night (without encamping).
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Definition
n. the resting at night of soldiers in the open air instead of under cover in camp.—v.i. to pass the night in the open air:—pr.p. biv′ouacking; pa.p. biv′ouacked.
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Examples
- Our cavalry then went into bivouac, and renewed the pursuit on the following morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As no troops came up we moved back a mile or more until we met the head of the column just going into bivouac on the road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What was our surprise, not long after we had gone into bivouac, to see the lost mule, cargo and owner coming up the ascent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Lee and I then separated as cordially as we had met, he returning to his own lines, and all went into bivouac for the night at Appomattox. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We followed up our victory until night overtook us about two miles from Port Gibson; then the troops went into bivouac for the night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the woods being still on fire, Anderson could not go into bivouac, and marched directly on to his destination that night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was near by and arrived some four miles east of Mine Run before bivouacking for the night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Along this road they retreated on the next day, and here was the bank at which the regiment bivouacked under the rain of the night of the seventeenth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Merritt, with the cavalry, stopped and bivouacked west of Five Forks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- During the night of the 23d he crossed over and bivouacked not far from the Capitol. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miles bivouacked for the night on the ground which he with Sheridan had carried so handsomely by assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The outer line of rifle-pits was passed, and the night of the 15th General Smith, with much of his division, bivouacked within the lines of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Worth reached a defensible position just out of range of the enemy's guns on the heights north-west of the city, and bivouacked for the night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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