2. Verb. (third-person singular of bivouac) ¹
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Definition of Bivouacs
1. bivouac [v] - See also: bivouac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bivouacs
Literary usage of Bivouacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"Washington City profited by its encircling garrison CHEERLESS bivouacs. of one
hundred and fifty thousand men, and its population of civilians increased ..."
2. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"Perimeter camps and bivouacs. Mountain tactics differ from ordinary tactics in
... Camps and bivouacs are compact, with self- supporting pickets holding the ..."
3. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"... to bed in our bivouacs in the Peninsula, had it not been for the ingenuity of
your humble servant—avow, that if mutton was to be had, and beef to be ..."
4. Fundamentals of Military Service by Lincoln Clarke Andrews, Leonard Wood (1916)
"CHAPTER XXII CAMPS AND bivouacs 1. As in marches so in camp, the fundamental
consideration is to reduce to a minimum the hardships for the men and horses, ..."
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