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This refit also strengthened thebreastworkand upper decks, added another watertight bulkhead as well as a false keel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some heavily trampledbreastworkis still visible in the woods by the train tracks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The regiment advanced in line that evening after driving back enemy skirmishers to their main line, the regiment threw up breastworks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It usually just consisted of a low rampart with abreastworkthat protected its defending infantry.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then he wrapped himself in a blanket and stretched on thebreastworkto rest.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He will do so from behind an impressivebreastworkof figures.
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No longer can we create abreastworkof human lives in trenches.
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Nothing but the piled up logs of breastworks separated the combatants.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Deploying wet hemp bales as mobile breastworks, the rebel advance was shielded from heavy cannon fire.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also placed a guard at the breastworks on the west side of town and put a cannon in the churchyard to cover the street.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ship'sbreastworkwas removed and replaced by side armour with transverse armoured bulkheads to form an armoured citadel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This east curtain wall area is flanked by a semicircularbreastwork; the strongest part of the building.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He ordered his men to construct abreastworkfrom nearby logs and brush.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The militia had set up breastworks trenches along the west side of the river.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Every angle of thebreastworkis yet traceable, though much defaced by time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Confederate counterattacks, however, succeeded in recapturing thebreastworkpositions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since digging trenches was impossible, he resolved to erect breastworks instead.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Power, who started the movement, was left festering outside-the breastworks, without control or influence in the new organisation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ground was low-lying and much of the defensive fortifications on both sides consisted of breastworks, rather than trenches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The superstructure and conning tower was fully armoured, the reason it was called abreastwork, with 8-9in mm of wrought iron.
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