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abatis (or abattis)
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| Lieutenant Charpentier ordered a clearing made and a circular abatis of underbrush constructed about the camp. The besieged had drawn together a pile of black logs and branches of trees, which they had formed into a chevaux-de- frise, making a little circular abatis in front of the entrance to the cave. |
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