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Definition of Breastworks
1. breastwork [n] - See also: breastwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breastworks
Literary usage of Breastworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... wherever charge on Sunday evening, which drove the enemy from hie breastworks
and gave us the battle. Colonel Mills, also, is entitled to be remembered. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... the rebels were driven back fully two miles to their line of breastworks, the
Ninety-first Ohio gallantly capturing and bringing off the field a rifled ..."
3. Life of Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth (1908)
"... and Retire Behind Their breastworks towards the Close of Day—Partial Reinvestment
by Grant's Lines—Attack on the Confederate Right by Smith's Division, ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"... BO Flower—The Sinister Assault on the breastworks of Free Government—The War
Between Democracy and Plutocracy in the Democratic Party—Two Facts for ..."
5. Redeeming the Republic: The Third Period of the War of the Rebellion, in the by Charles Carleton Coffin (1889)
"It was along the line of Kingsland Creek that the strongest breastworks had been
thrown up. and there Beauregard, with great energy, had concentrated his ..."
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