A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it...

up breastwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breastwork may mean: Breastwork (fortification), a temporary military fortification Breastwork monitor...

rampart on the inside of the fortification; sometimes retained with a masonry wall but usually a grassy slope. Parapet (or breastwork) which protected and concealed...

mechanical skill, and are built of enduring materials. Field fortifications—for example breastworks—and often known as fieldworks or earthworks, are extemporized...

TV series) Blitzkrieg Breastwork (fortification) Infiltration Last stand Maneuver warfare Medieval warfare Sangar (fortification) Siege engines Siege equipment...

(or sanger) (Persian: سنگر) is a temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally constructed of stones, and now built of sandbags, gabions or...

Saints from 24 October 2003 to 18 April 2004. The Mormon Flat Breastworks, fortification structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

is also a famous war tourism site in China. Attrition warfare Breastwork (fortification) Early thermal weapons Explosive mine Land mine Maneuver warfare...

Confederate Breastworks is a historic breastworks located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The earthen bunkers are located on the grounds...

Gompa of Drukpa Kagyu lineage, remnants of 400 years old breastwork fortification wall (fortification of earthwork piled up to breast height to provide protection...

Yarkand expedition. Murgo has the ruins of an ancient breastwork fortification wall (fortification of earthwork piled up to breast height to provide protection...

The fortifications of Frankfurt were a system of military defences of the German city of Frankfurt am Main which existed from the Middle Ages into the...

wooden fort, c) 20th century - a large concrete defensive structure. Breastwork Bulwark Bunker: a heavily fortified, mainly underground, facility used...

assumed to be a jocular reference to the perceived similarity of the fortifications to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once...

restraint systems" or "pedestrian restraint systems". A parapet fortification (known as a breastwork when temporary) is a wall of stone, wood or earth on the...

Redoubt & 4 flanks : Kingsland Road North 6) battery & Breastwork : Mountmill 7 Battery & Breastwork : St John Street 8) Small Redoubt : Islington Road (Outlier)...

bastions or ravelins. It usually just consisted of a low rampart with a breastwork that protected its defending infantry. Another ditch in front of the work...

the one they had chosen and the skill which they manifested in their breastwork was really astonishing. It extended across the point in such a direction...

flanked on either side. He promptly ordered his men to begin constructing a breastwork running down the hill to the east, deciding that he did not have the manpower...

The fortifications of Kingston upon Hull consisted of three major constructions: the brick built Hull town walls, first established in the early 14th century...

position, or the first men to climb a scaling ladder against a defended fortification, or a rearguard, to be expended to save a retreating army, where the...

battlements (parapets with squared openings for shooting through) and breastwork (wooden screens at breast height to protect the defenders) with large...

The Te Pōrere Redoubts were fortifications of the New Zealand Wars, located at Te Pōrere, to the southwest of the current site of Tūrangi, in New Zealand...

in Flanders were actually above ground and constructed from massive breastworks of sandbags filled with clay. Initially, both the parapet and parados...

additions and modifications during their history, they were the last great fortification system of antiquity, and one of the most complex and elaborate systems...

was further filled with "torpedoes", and a breastwork was built at the northern end of the fortification in order to contain any landing forces. Because...

"Company H, K, & G occupy a Knob about three hundred feet high, with breastworks, stockade, and 125 pounder (cannon). The rest of the Regiment is over...

The breastwork monitor was developed during the 1860s by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, as an improvement of the basic monitor design...

Fort Henry, Orderly Sgt. Nugent ordered an assault upon a rebel breastwork fortification. In this assault, the orderly sergeant and his comrades drove a...

and Parkersburg Turnpike. Johnson ordered the construction of fortifications and breastworks at a high point along the turnpike on top of Shenandoah Mountain...