Sentence examples for reverse slope from inspiring English sources

Its thick hedges offered excellent cover, and most of Wellington's troops were placed on the ridge's reverse slope to shelter them from the French artillery.

They had cleverly established their position on the back slope of the ridge (reverse slope defense) so they could surprise us as we came over the rise.

As in Wellington's day, the preferred location of such defenses witness the so-called Hindenburg Line built by the Germans in 1917 was on the reverse slope of a hill or ridge.

Up ahead they anticipated a target-rich cavalry environment, in which Wellington's retreating army would be dealt the coup de grâce, but as they breasted the ridge and entered the reverse slope plateau, they were confronted by something totally unexpected: a chequerboard configuration of infantry squares".

Small rockfalls or falling stones are more susceptible than large deep-seated landslides on such a reverse slope.

Figure 4 shows two rockfalls (27.927°N, 85.932°E) occurred on the upper slope at an inspection station of Nepal, which originated from nearby the ridge of the reverse slope and accumulated into two conical heaps with two narrow runout paths.

On the horizon are the mountains, verdant rainforest on their well-watered, shaded southern slopes and arid scrub on the dry reverse slopes.

Construction of defensive localities sited in all-round defence with interlocking arcs of fire began almost immediately, although such operations were confined to the reverse slopes during the day due to artillery and mortar fire which made such operations hazardous.

Construction of defensive localities began almost immediately, although such operations were confined to the reverse slopes during the day due to artillery and mortar fire which made such operations hazardous.

Beresford deployed his troops on the reverse slopes of such hills as could be found on the battlefield; unable to see the Allied army, Soult was still unaware that Blake's Spanish divisions had come up during the night.

Nevertheless, reverse sloping hearing loss was still the most common audiological configuration appropriate for the OTC hearing aids.