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Definition of Breastworks

Breastwork
Breastwork Breast"work` (br[e^]st"w[^u]rk`), n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. 2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

Meaning of Breastworks from wikipedia

- University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-211649-9. List of established military terms (Fortifications) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Breastworks. v t e...
- Breastworks Branch is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. A variant name was "Breastwork Branch". Breastworks Branch was so named on account of a breastwork...
- up breastwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breastwork may mean: Breastwork (fortification), a temporary military fortification Breastwork monitor...
- Latter-day Saints from 24 October 2003 to 18 April 2004. The Mormon Flat Breastworks, fortification structures listed on the National Register of Historic...
- Confederate Breastworks is a historic breastworks located at Fayetteville, ****berland County, North Carolina. The earthen bunkers are located on the grounds...
- A breastwork monitor was a modification of the monitor, a warship which was first built in the United States in 1861, designed by John Ericsson and distinguished...
- The Cerberus-class breastwork monitor was a pair of breastwork monitors built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. Also referred to as "ironclads" and "turret...
- shrapnel rounds into the breastworks, which were soon abandoned by most of the Filipinos. Some Filipinos remained in the breastworks after the bombardment...
- the Confederates reached the crest of the hill and entered the Union breastworks, capturing one or two batteries. Seeing he was not supported on his right...
- launched a series of brigade-sized ****aults against Hill's improvised breastworks at around 9:30 a.m.. The first brigade to attack, mostly inexperienced...