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Updated: May 9, 2025
The ultimate effect of levees and revetments confining the floods and bringing all the stages of the river into register is to deepen the channel and let down the slope.
The ultimate effect of levees and revetments confining the floods and bringing all the stages of the river into register is to deepen the channel and let down the slope.
Men have to be brought up, trenches have to be dug, the artillery has to prepare, and men, guns, and trenches have to be supplied with food, water, shells, sandbags, props, and revetments.
The inner works of it the redan and the underground barracks, and the magazines, and all were built after the style .followed by military engineers back in 1883, having revetments faced up with brick and stone; but only a little while ago in the summer of 1913, to be exact the job of inclosing the original works with a glacis of a newer type had been completed.
After the first down-stream plunge there came no more walls of water, but the river lifted herself bodily, as a snake when she drinks in midsummer, plucking and fingering along the revetments, and banking up behind the piers till even Findlayson began to recalculate the strength of his work. When day came the village gasped.
The wheels were taken off and laid on the ground in the rear of the pieces; sand-bag revetments were built up in front of the guns, and each crew divided into two reliefs. One relief was required to be constantly at the gun and always ready for instant action.
"There is always time for her; and none the less there has been delay. Has the Sahib forgotten last autumn's flood, when the stoneboats were sunk without warning or only a half-day's warning?" "Yes, but nothing save a big flood could hurt us now. The spurs are holding well on the west bank." "Mother Gunga eats great allowances. There is always room for more stone on the revetments.
They could be found lying around camp almost anywhere, and were used for any purpose to which they could be applied poles to hang kettles on over the fire, tent-sticks, revetments to hold the dirt back, or any other use.
After the first down-stream plunge there came no more walls of water, but the river lifted herself bodily, as a snake when she drinks in midsummer, plucking and fingering along the revetments, and banking up behind the piers till even Findlayson began to recalculate the strength of his work. When day came the village gasped.
They were revetted with hurdles and planks of timber which were kept in position by iron pickets, which were securely wired to anchor pickets driven sideways into the walls of the trench. So well anchored were the revetments that in spite of the continuous bombardments of the Somme Battle they were still in position.
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