Hidden behind the breastwork was a body of troops from Beauséjour. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage] Reference
We began, immediately, a kind of breastwork, made by chopping off logs, and putting them together. From Wordnik.com. [Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830] Reference
Isabel, and so arranged as to form a kind of breastwork, to shield the boys from the bullets of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives] Reference
The breastwork is occupied -- they are driven out!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The next move was directly into the enemy's breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
The horse went down within fifty yards of the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
How they were to take the breastwork in this way, we could not see. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
All the miners rushed to the breastwork save one, and that was Seth. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Thanks to Ernest Wilton's breastwork, their losses had not been very heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
From barricade, breastwork, and riflepit, how the scourged rebels pour out!. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Some got through the abattis, and went up to the breastwork, eight feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
I made up my mind to g-get to the low land, and pass by the end of the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Here the work in hand was the building of a solid breastwork in continuation of Guards. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
Then we pushed into the mass of boughs and drove the French back into their breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
We stood among the branches, and fired at the heads that appeared above the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Kit Carson told him to put his soldiers to piling stone and make a breastwork to hide behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The Rangers advanced a little, and opened fire at every head that showed above the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Then I kept close to the edge of the swamp, and went along carefully, t-till I got near the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
They passed through the fallen trees, marched up to the breastwork, and again made an attempt to scale it. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Engineers 'dump, where they were issued, and that the building of the breastwork did not proceed very rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
On the other side of the wire entanglements an officer and men, behind the breastwork pointed helmets and caps. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
As soon as we are behind our breastwork our Lieutenant gives a command loud enough to be heard at sixty metres. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
The Spaniards had retreated to a breastwork at the rear of the fort, where they kept up a desultory fire at the. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
But, before firing, the gunner made signal to the men to escape, contenting himself with demolishing their breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
A breastwork of rock was before him; the half circle of a shallow cave cut off a portion of the star-pointed sky above. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
Protected by the breastwork, we had suffered but little; and the Diana was expected to resume her position before morning. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
They encamp for safety every evening in a regular square formed of the bags of grain of which they construct a breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The farther point of this hill was held-by the enemy with a breastwork of logs and fresh earth, filled with men and two guns. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
At the summit of the steep mountain was a triangular platform, defended by a breastwork, behind which were seventy of the foe. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
They made a natural breastwork behind which a few determined men could hold at bay a horde of enemies -- for a time, at least. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
As we looked down from the hill, we saw the French hard at work on a strong breastwork of logs which they had nearly completed. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
And from that barrier of stones piled into a breastwork by chance, interwoven with bone-bare drift, arose the first of the cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
In his rear the river being fordable, he covered the ford with a strong breastwork, defended by a guard, and kept a strong picquet of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
On the 23d, the Rangers were sent across the plain, to take a position on the cleared land, next to Lake Champlain, near the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
But he stood untouched, and, at length, the officer ordering the troops to fire at him no more, he retired at once behind the breastwork. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
A breastwork of rails was thrown together, colors planted, a nucleus made, and both flanks grew longer and longer with wonderful rapidity. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
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