turf-bulwarks

Updated: June 4, 2025

The burghers thought that, once behind those heaven-high mountains, with all the passes in their possession, with abundant war supplies, and all the necessaries of life, they would resist successfully every attack. The camps were pitched at the base of the mountains. The burghers began at once to make turf-bulwarks for the guns, and trenches for themselves, in the various passes.

P. H. (Pieter Hendrick) Kritzinger - In the Shadow of Death