After proceeding some distance — about three miles this side of Norton's farm — the advance scouts were fired on from schantzes in a kopje adjoining the road.
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Schantze
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At 7 a.m. they opened fire upon the long lines of schantzes which dotted every crestline and were the only visible sign of the enemy's presence.
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Round the dome the insurgents had built little stone schantzes, and each had a dull brown stain behind it; round about lay a few cartridge-cases and old rags.
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In 1907 the defendant erected a schantze or stone weir inside his boundary so as to confine the water to the former course, and to prevent it coming on to his land at times of ordinary flood.
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