breastwork

• Being saved from fire once did not mean they would be again, so when the breastwork was done, the two servants went to work pulling up more dry grass inside the position, and piling rocks around the wounded to shield them from flames as well as arrows and bullets. —  Three Roads to Alamo
• There must be some mistake in regard to this breastwork, as it is evident from the circumstances of the case, that the Indians could not, before the battle, have erected one so near the camp without discovery; and after the action commenced, it was too fiercely prosecuted for a rampart of this kind to have been thrown up. —  Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet
• It was a mere breastwork, as we have said, of logs and branches, with blankets, buffalo robes, and the leathern covers of lodges, extended round the top as a screen. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• An occasional firing into the breastwork was kept up during the day. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• Warren wisely used the slightly raised railroad bed for a breastwork, and promptly opened the battle without giving the enemy time for a change of position or for new formations. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865

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