Caption: Re-enactors in the uniform of the Canadian Voltigeurs take shelter behind the bristling hedgehog defence of an
abatis, similar to the one that would have been constructed by the fearless company at the Battle of Chateauguay, October 26, 1813.
hurlait a tue-tete: "Alphonse un bock!" puis il y eut un
abatis de soucoupes, l'appel d'un chien, le bonjour d'un buveur qui, retourne sur son tabouret, saluait des doigts un nouveau venu et se remettait aussitot le nez dans ses cartes.
ABATIS, Originally published in the Fall 2008 (Volume 24) issue of Thought & Action, The NEA Higher Education Journal.
Likewise, the main gun makes short work of wire obstacles, log cribs,
abatis and so forth.
The top three scorers who qualified were Marc Ingram of London House, Andy Smith of Bank of Ireland and Peter Priestley of
Abatis Limited.
'STOKE PARK MASSIV': (From left) Rosie Kay, 14, Ross
Abatis, 14, Chris Freestone, 14, Peter Hodgetts, 14, James Hobday, 14, Scott O'Neill, 14, Amarveer Bains, 14, and Zoe Ames, 14; D21186_6.
At the recent AGM of the British Pest Association (BPCA) in Edinburgh, it was agreed that Peter Priestley of Middlesex-based
Abatis Ltd continue as President for the forthcoming Association year.
Halfway up the hill lay three rows of
abatis, an obstacle composed of felled trees stripped of their leaves and smaller branches with remaining branches sharpened into points.
He put just over pounds 3m into Vancouver-based
Abatis and was rewarded with a pounds 181m profit when it was sold last year.
The forest of the Tula
Abatis consists mainly of middle-aged and old stands and harvested sites containing dense regeneration (Kurnayev 1980).
His other successes include Vancouver-based
Abatis, set up with $5million and which he sold four years later for $1.2billion.
For example, from Anderson's judicious quotation from the diaries kept by many New England soldiers, a reader feels the shocking experience for thousands of colonial farm boys of seeing hundreds of British regulars caught in an "
abatis" of felled trees (tree limbs sharpened and woven together) and being slaughtered by French musketry and grapeshot at Ticonderoga.
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AbatisThe ground then rose at an angle of 30 to 35 degrees to an
abatis (heavy trees, cut down and arranged end to end, with the tops cut off and the branches sharpened and interlaced).
