Once ashore, the Portuguese threw the barges'protective pavises on the sand to walk over the caltrops and gunpowder mines scattered all around.
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He led a battalion of 500 specially selected men, to clean out the traps, abatis, caltrops, and garbage left by the British.
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The species name " calcitrapa " comes from the word " caltrop ", a type of weapon covered in sharp spikes.
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The unrest was so intense that " army troops had to wade through caltrops, trees, concrete blocks, car and crane wrecks to advance.
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This plant can also be compared to the starthistle, " Centaurea calcitrapa ", which is sometimes referred to as the " caltrop ".
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Many of the bodies of the water in the area are characterized by extensive swamps, with papyrus, Nile lettuce and water caltrop among other species.
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:I did not realize that such a trivial policy issue was such a huge issue for Caltrop that he would consider leaving the project over it.
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At Saint Albans, he had injured his foot stepping on one of Warwick's caltrops, but he nevertheless claimed to have killed fifteen Yorkists.
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These tactics allowed a reduced infantry army to defeat cavalrymen with the use of longbowmen in the flanks and defensive structures ( like caltrops ) in the front.
