Behind these natural breastworks, the company fired repeated volleys at the approaching horsemen. |
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He ordered soldiers to tear down breastworks and use the logs to feed the fires. |
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Upon further inspection of the breastworks, I have come to the conclusion that the town was almost impregnable. |
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They worked to erect small semicircular breastworks from the many rocks that dotted the terrain. |
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From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire. |
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When the fighting died down, the Confederates hastily constructed breastworks to protect their gains. |
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The scouts barricaded themselves behind tree trunks and threw up breastworks of fallen trees. |
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The regiment gained the enemy's breastworks and the affair at Boykin's Mills was over. |
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Militiamen dug in their heels behind meager breastworks and awaited the arrival of their adversaries. |
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The cavalry horses were watered at the spring, and the men settled in their breastworks. |
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The bombs exploded in the air and sailed into the breastworks, throwing up great clouds of dirt. |
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