Sentence examples for construction of a stockade from inspiring English sources

Maxwell ordered the construction of a stockade and the improvisation of additional weapons to counter the threat of an attack.

Lieutenant Isaac Butterfield led an advance force that arrived at The Cedars on April 26 and began construction of a wooden stockade fort, fortifying it with two four-pound cannons.

He began fortifying the camp, ordering the construction of an improvised stockade.

Trent's company arrived on site in February 1754, and began construction of a storehouse and stockade with the assistance of Tanacharison and the Mingos.

To block construction, they have erected a stockade and staged demonstrations.

The city's Fort Museum includes a replica of Fort Williams (a stockade built near the Minnesota border in 1862) and of a frontier village.

"He spent a lot of time in a stockade," Hugh McNiece said of his father, "and he was O.K. with that".

Obviously enough the aim of the first three articles is to erect a presumption of rights as a stockade around individuals to shield them from arbitrary depredation.

The other bank of the stream was open ground a gentle acclivity topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.

There's a bondage table, a metal cage, whips, paddles, a stockade of sorts, and various other instruments of the trade.

Unlike Warhol, whom he befriended early on, Hockney openly explored the nature of gay love in his work and declined to hide behind a stockade of soup cans.