"Bivouac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... movements of a whole army at a glance, and hence could, must, individualize brigades, divisions, army corps. It is the war in field, woods, underbrush, picket-post, skirmish-line, camp, march, bivouac. During 1864 no memorandum was kept, and a diary kept during the spring of 1865 was lost, within a year after the close of the war. Hence I have depended on memory alone, aided in fixing dates, etc., by reference to written works. ...
— In The Ranks - From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House • R. E. McBride
... the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller
... the French Republic rushed to arms, and defended France successfully against all Europe, during the last decade of the eighteenth century, they did not think of the privations of the bivouac, of the horrors of the battlefield, of the sorrow of their families, they thought only of France ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various
... much to us. Across its shining bosom was our path to civilization and its attendant comforts, which we had been denied for many a month. Night found us steadily descending to ward the seaboard, as we neared Otao, in the vicinity of which we were to bivouac for the night. My camel nearly stumbled over an old rusty rail thrown across my path, and further on I could trace in the moonlight the dark trail of a crazy permanent way, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various
... had not arrived, and consequently set out on our return, but the horses soon tiring, we were obliged to bivouac on the plain. In the morning we had caught an armadillo, which, although a most excellent dish when roasted in its shell, did not make a very substantial breakfast and dinner for two hungry men. The ground at the place where we stopped for the night was incrusted with a layer of sulphate ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
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