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Bivouac meaning
An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering. | Any temporary encampment. | A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
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Participants camped overnight in their shelters at the bivouac area, providing a taste of the harsh conditions they might face during a real mission.
When we spoke on May 10, they were waiting for their own small wood-and-plastic-tarp bivouac there.
Because why shouldn’t your alpine bivouac come with a side of couture?
The Killers at the Bivouac club in 2003.
Bivouac finished second behind Exceedance in the Coolmore Stud Stakes last spring.
Bivouac is a colt and he's a highly valuable horse and the more races we can win with him at the elite level, the more value we can put on him.
But other three-year-olds - Bivouac and Exceedance - with the possibility that their best is yet to come, could enhance the chapter for future reference.
Glen Boss will stalk the speed, likely to be set by Nature Strip, and produce Bivouac, which has become his style.
Godolphin has already locked in Bivouac for the $15 million The TAB Everest at Royal Randwick – but the stable is hopeful of adding a second runner to the field.
Libertini ran a close third behind Exceedance and Bivouac in last year’s Coolmore Stud Stakes and Cummings has always thought he could win a few Group 1s with her.
The 54th Massachusetts was still in bivouac when the Confederates attacked, and Terry’s entire command seems to have been taken somewhat by surprise.
Castelvecchio dropped back to the Golden Rose instead of tackling the Gloaming and although well beaten he was only 4.1L off Bivouac.
Holding more than double the amount of money than any other runner, Bivouac commanded 40 per cent of the total investment.
James Cummings said it was a close between Alizee and Bivouac for Godolphin’s slot in The Everest.
While he has only had one second placing from six starts since, he has tackled some of the best horses of his age, including Bivouac, Libertini, Tenley and Pin Sec.
He arrived late at Mechanicsville and inexplicably ordered his men to bivouac for the night within clear earshot of the battle.
Meanwhile, daylight advance parties scouted for the next bivouac site.
This may involve simply getting a sleeping bag and Bivouac sack /bivvy bag and lying down to sleep.
What Lee found was that no one had ordered Pickett's division forward from its bivouac in the rear and that Longstreet had been planning an independent operation without consulting with him.
Wickwire endured an overnight bivouac about convert below the summit, one of the highest bivouacs in history.