tete-de-pont

The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont.

War and Peace 2003

Churubusco his left, under Colonel Hoffman, attacked a tete-de-pont at that place and brought on an engagement.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Riley's brigade having been ordered forward, General Scott ordered Pierce's brigade to move by the road leading north from Coyoacan across the Churubusco River by a bridge, turn to the right, and seize the causeway in the rear of the tete-de-pont.

General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893

The troops in the convent consisted of the Independencia and Bravo battalions, about six hundred and fifty each, with the necessary cannoneers for six guns, and in the tete-de-pont cannoneers for five guns, the San Patricio companies, and the battalion of Tlapa.

General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893

When he approached Churubusco his left, under Colonel Hoffman, attacked a tete-de-pont at that place and brought on an engagement.

Chapter XI 1885

When he approached Churubusco his left, under Colonel Hoffman, attacked a tete-de-pont at that place and brought on an engagement.

Personal Memoirs of U S Grant 01 Grant, Ulysses S 1885

Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont.

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

Borgoforte is a fortress on the left side of the Po, throwing a bridge across this river, the right end of which is headed by a strong tete-de-pont, the object of the present attack.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

An attack on the Borgoforte tete-de-pont on the right side of the Po, began on 5th at half-past three in the morning, under the immediate direction of General

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

As I am not far from Borgoforte, I am able to learn more than the mere cannon's voice can tell me, and so will give you some details of the action against the tete-de-pont, which began, as I told you in one of my former letters, on the 4th.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868