Retrenchment is a technical term infortification, where it is applied to a secondary work or series of works constructed in rear of existing defences to bar the further progress of the enemy who succeeds in breaching or storming these. An example was in thesiege of Port Arthur in 1904.
A retrenchment can also be referred to as anentrenchment.[1]
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