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breastworks (noun) - Breastworks are protective barriers or fortifications built using earth, wood, or other materials. They are typically constructed for military purposes to provide cover and defense against enemy attacks
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The facility was surrounded by earth and stone breastworks.
The dismounted troopers threw up log breastworks while waiting for further orders.
The order was given to fall back to our breastworks.
Mackellar gradually advanced his breastworks towards the ditch under cover of these batteries.
Forward observer reported three direct hits on his breastworks.
Four artillery batteries with breastworks and rifle pits were placed in a semicircle around the town.
It would be the first time the regiment had ever fought behind breastworks.
In this area the high water table meant that breastworks were required for defence.
Dead Filipinos were piled so high that the Americans used their bodies for breastworks.
Evidence of organized resistance included apparent breastworks made of dead horses on Custer Hill.
The sloping ground between the walls of the fort and the breastworks.
The corps encountered the Confederates behind breastworks of cotton bales fronted by a bayou and abatis.
The Patriotes then retreated back to the breastworks.
The Parliamentarians built breastworks of earth and stone to protect their musketeers and artillery pieces.
It was not held but was enfiladed by breastworks on either side.
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The accurate fire from the parapets indeed hampered the Liberals building of their own breastworks.
For several months the men were engaged in throwing up breastworks and building fortifications.
Breastworks have been put up, trenches dug.
The corps encountered the Confederates behind breastworks and took cover as enemy artillery began firing.
The Deep State quickly builds its ramparts and breastworks.
I am throwing up breastworks for infantry, and consider myself secure.
Major John Bane reported that by dawn the breastworks stood two feet high.
Breastworks have been put up, trenches dug . Machine guns are scattered all over the town.
You command the heights, bristling breastworks.
Built as an outer defence perimeter, breastworks are the low stone walls surrounding forts.
Since digging trenches was impossible, he resolved to erect breastworks instead.
Along with the townspeople, they constructed breastworks that formed a defensive line south of Corydon.
During the American Revolution, the area was the location of numerous fortifications, redoubts and breastworks.
Between every two carts, there were breastworks for his matchlock men.
Human breastworks preferred by Jack Sheridan, veteran arbitrator.
Beauregard 's men fought fiercely, erecting new breastworks to the rear as breakthroughs occurred.
Make the breastworks half-height . We may need to jump over them.
The Confederate position was a relatively strong one, reinforced by breastworks commanding the road.
They erected primitive breastworks and sent skirmishers a quarter-mile in the direction of the Confederates.
When General Wheeler reached the trenches, he ordered breastworks constructed.
The Confederates built breastworks out of logs from Liggan 's farm.
Early on the morning of September 20, Harris 's men advanced behind his mobile breastworks.
Make the breastworks half-height.
Meanwhile, the city's defenders hastily erected breastworks on Amherst Heights.
When you charged the breastworks at Madisonville, were not you?
French launched a series of brigade-sized assaults against Hill 's improvised breastworks at around 9:30 a . m.
We need clear sightlines! Make the breastworks half-height. We may need to jump over them.
