bivouack

The only good news came from Apollonia with Quintus Dellius, who informed him that his legions had arrived on the west coast of Macedonia, and were happy to bivouack in a kinder climate.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The only good news came from Apollonia with Quintus Dellius, who informed him that his legions had arrived on the west coast of Macedonia, and were happy to bivouack in a kinder climate.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

They bivouack outside our abode, modesty not permitting the sexes to mingle, and in the severest cold wear no clothing but a head fillet and an old Tobe.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Han't I lain in bivouack on the field at Salamanca, and

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 Various

It was a charge under a hot fire, sharp and decisive, which quickly changed to a pursuit of the fleeing enemy, kept up until the bivouack at ten o'clock.

The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War Dudley Landon Vaill

Though the night was severely cold, the troops were compelled for the most to bivouack without fires, expecting that morning would renew the conflict.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

I determined to pay them a visit, to witness the ceremonies of the night bivouack, which proved a most picturesque scene, and wild and beautiful in the extreme.

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

Regular Cavalry moved from the bivouack near the landing and arrived at Siboney at about 7 o'clock.

The Colored Regulars in the United States Army T. G. Steward

During all this march back over the mountains and to Eastern Virginia, our men had to scratch a fresh hole in the hard snow, at the end of every day's march, to bivouack for the night.

A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South, 1910

What hardships did they not uncomplainingly endure, on the march, in the bivouack, in the trenches!

A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South, 1910