Voorbeelden van bivouac

• Purpose-made stand-alone flies are also sometimes referred to as bivouacs, bivvies, tarpaulins, or hootchies.

• They had to bivouac at night in a field.

• In a standing camp a marquee is allowed for the officers' mess, but during manoeuvres it is seldom available, and officers bivouac with their men.

• She said that people caught out, and who rightly bivouac overnight waiting for the dawn, should hope that they have a benign landowner who will rescue them.

• Field allowance is issuable to officers and warrant officers when they are required to occupy unfurnished accommodation, whether under canvas, in bivouac, in war shelters or in huts or billets.

• Therefore, if users find themselves in adverse conditions in which it is unsafe to go on and decide to shelter in a bivouac they will lose their right of access.

• The following weekend the platoon are in the countryside to try out their bivouac tents.

• They reached the summit at the end of the second day, after a night of bivouac.

• Overnight camping is not allowed, except for at two bivouac shelters.

• The soldiers seemed to have rather enjoyed the skirmish since it relieved the boredom in their otherwise mundane life in bivouac.

• Although she had no food, she decided to bivouac and attempt the summit the next day.

• In the morning, the bivouac dissolves into raiding columns that form a fan-shaped front.

• Beetles, which mimic the ants, can be found in the bivouac and in columns.

• Although many men fell out, the brigade reached its bivouac in good order.

• Accommodation will not be available every night, so that lightweight camping, or bivouac gear, is necessary, as well as several days supply of food.