Bivouacked
[bivuækd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Bivouac
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Examples
- 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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