Meanings of strong stockade in English

The village where they had halted was, however, built upon the ground; but was surrounded by a strong stockade.

A fort was erected, and the little hamlet surrounded by a strong stockade as a protection against the savages.

They put up four redoubts, one at each corner of the town, and fortified it with a strong stockade.

It consisted of a strong stockade composed of whole logs of wood, with a deep trench in front of it.

On the right of the besiegers was a strong stockade fort, and on the left a work called the Star redoubt.

As protection from European buccaneers rather than from the friendly Indians, it was surrounded by a strong stockade, fifty feet square.

Here the Thibetans had erected a strong stockade, at the top of a very steep ascent; and had barricaded the road with stone breastworks.

It will be a record of your grand defence and, by placing a strong stockade along the top, you would strengthen your position greatly.

Although the 3000 Burmese, who were posted in a strong stockade, were supported by thirty-six guns; the works were carried by storm, with little loss.

The Confederate Military Prison at Andersonville, Ga., consists of a strong Stockade, twenty feet in height, enclosing twenty-seven acres.

They had erected strong stockades on each bank of the river Surma, and had thrown a bridge across to connect them.

He built two substantial log houses, about forty feet apart, fronting each other, and closed the end openings with strong stockades.

In remote localities he enclosed his camp by strong stockades: even these were sometimes forced and carried at night by bands of desperadoes.

The meadows, besides being divided by the hedges, kept purposely cropped low, were surrounded, like all the cultivated lands, by high and strong stockades.