The Scots were surprised in their bivouacs, but quickly formed up, and at first repulsed both the horse and the foot.
We made some bivouacs (natural shelters) for our Advanced Scout Standard Award in the woods.
So far, however, from being ahead of the Germans on the road to Verdun, the French were actually, late in the afternoon of the 15th of August, bivouacked on the plateau of Rezonville, and there their outposts were placed, not where they could see the surrounding country, but at the regulation distances of 600 to loon paces from the bivouacs.
The wet state of the ground (largely composed of corn-fields) and the scattered bivouacs of the French army prevented the attack from being made at 6 A.M.
Pushing on through the night, they drove the French out of seven successive bivouacs and at length drove them over the Sambre.
