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a1595 R. Williams Actions Lowe Countries (1618) 43 For the defendants knowing the place, and the successe of the furie, will re-enforce their breaches & re-entrench themselues in such sort, that the assailants can doe small hurt with their approaches.

1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre i. xxv. 60 The Bulworkes ought to bee large and spacious, to the end they may Re-intrench themselves, and the point or Angels as blunt as possible may bee made.

1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 22 They saw the prince stand bulwarckt in the midst of so many slaughter'd Moores: and re-intrenched about with his owne dead.

1835 J. H. Cooke Narr. Events South of France 247 There was no time to be lost, as the Americans, like the ancients, entrenched, barricaded, and re-entrenched, according to passing exigences.

1864 U.S. Service Mag. Aug. 121 Now commenced the approach to Corinth, in the course of which seven distinct rebel camps were, with more or less skirmishing, successfully carried, occupied, and re-intrenched by Sherman.

1899 Rev. of Reviews Mar. 259 Masses of..troops reintrenched themselves.

1938 B. Stolberg Story of CIO vii. 205 Once the rank and file becomes conscious of Stalinist disruption, the Communist Party has little chance of re-entrenching itself in key positions.

1952 B. P. Thomas Abraham Lincoln xiii. 273 The enemy did not pursue in the heavy rain, and by Tuesday the Union army had reintrenched on Arlington Heights.

1994 K. Abraham Ethiopia vii. 124 Enlightened Oromos are still upset by the way their nationality was used as a ploy for reintrenching the old dominance.

2006 C. Hodge Brit. & Balkans i. 6 By the end of 1991 he [sc. Milosevic] was firmly re-entrenched in power, and in a position to extend the field of military combat to Bosnia.