Editing Abatis (section)

== History ==
[[File:Abatis.jpg|thumb|Abatis improvised by Japanese troops during [[World War II]]]]

[[Gregory of Tours]] mentions the use of abatises several times in his writing about the history of the early Franks. He wrote that the Franks ambushed and destroyed a Roman army near [[Neuss]] during the reign of [[Magnus Maximus]] with the use of an abatis. He also wrote that [[Mummolus]], a general working for Burgundy, successfully used an abatis to defeat a [[Lombards|Lombard]] army near [[Embrun, Hautes-Alpes|Embrun]]. <ref> Gregory of Tours. A History of the Franks. Pantianos Classics, 1916</ref>

A classic use of an abatis was at the [[Battle of Carillon]] (1758) during the Seven Years' War. The 3,600 French troops defeated a massive army of 16,000 British and Colonial troops by fronting their defensive positions with an extremely dense abatis. The British found the defences almost impossible to breach and were forced to withdraw with some 2,600 casualties. Other uses of an abatis can be found at the [[Battle of the Chateauguay]], 26 October 1813, when approximately 1,300 [[Canadian Voltigeurs]], under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 4,000 men, or at the [[Battle of Plattsburgh]].