War and Peace vocabulary

By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles long.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster

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On December 3, 1838, "General" [Lucious] Bierce, as he now styled himself, led a contingent of volunteers across Lake Erie aboard a captured passenger steamer and set fire to the British barracks at Windsor. Then, foolishly dividing his forces, he moved into town with thirty men while the rest of the attackers incautiously bivouacked in a nearby apple orchard.

Roy Morris. Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, p.16

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they tore to shreds the hammock that had resisted the sad bivouac loves of Colonel Aureliano Buendía,

Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.436 (1970)

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Behold the mansion reared by dædal Jack.

See the malt stored in many a plethoric sack,

In the proud cirque of Ivan's bivouac.

Anonymous. English As She is Wrote (1883)