Retrenchment (military)

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Retrenchment is a technical term in fortification, where it is applied to a work or series of works constructed in rear of existing defences in order to bar the further progress of the enemy should he succeed in breaching or storming these. An example was in the siege of Port Arthur in 1904.

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