10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREASTWORK»
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breastwork in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
breastwork and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding
Breastwork delivers an original and personal approach to a near-universal practice and doesn't shy from controversy or controversial topics, such as sexual desire and breastfeeding.
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An enquiry into the conduct of General Putnam, in relation ...
diately to the redoubt and breastwork, which was thrown up the night before.
Here we remained till the enemy came to the attack. Gen. Putnam seemed to
have the ordering of things. He charged the men not to fire till the enemy came
close to ...
3
The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers
By the time we reached the first breastwork and tried to regroup there, the ranks
were already substantially thinned. As we then rushed over the breastwork and
across the muddy field beyond it, through a terrible hail of rifle balls, toward the ...
Steven E. Woodworth,
2002
4
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
He ordered his men back to cover and sent word to Kershaw that the enemy was
in strong force behind a solid breastwork of logs.10 So far the battle had raged
loudly, but the thick woods afforded good cover to both sides and losses were
low.
5
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
The teeth pulled both fiber and seed along until they reached the slotted
breastwork at the back of the hopper. At the moment the teeth passed through the
breastwork and pulled the fiber through it, ginning occurred. The breastwork held
back ...
6
Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, ...
the Breastwork was laid out and in the place where he did then his proportion
and shall maintain the said Breastworks according to its first appointment 5 foot
and lA in height with the rails or outworks belonging thereto." The wording is a
little ...
7
ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial ...
Captain Arblaster took over the 53rd when its commanding officer, Lieutenant-
Colonel Ignatius Norris, was killed on the breastwork. The 54th Battalion on this
side of Rue Delvas had an easier crossing and caught the Germans emerging
from ...
8
Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, ...
There was a breastwork for the young men to fight behind, and back of that a way
another breastwork for the women and children. The bank ran in a sort of
amphitheatre and as the two went to the breastworks at the other end of the
horseshoe ...
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An enquiry [signed L.] into the conduct of general Putnam in ...
diately to the redoubt and breastwork, which was thrown up the night before.
Here we remained till the enemy came to the attack. Gen. Putnam seemed to
have the ordering of things. He charged the men not to fire till the enemy came
close to ...
Israel Putnam, Samuel Swett,
1819
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Manual on the Use of Timber in Coastal and River Engineering
Timber bulkhead with rock toe protection at Lepe, Hampshire (courtesy HR
Wallingford) Timber species Conventional impermeable breastwork has
traditionally been constructed from similar materials to conventional groynes -
including ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREASTWORK»
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Looking Back: From our files for July 5, 2015
... Sunday afternoon and narrowly escaped from going over a 220-foot precipice at “Breastwork Curve,” one mile from Camp Nelson. Their car ... «Central Kentucky News, Jul 15»
TALLAPOOSA TRAVELER: Horseshoe Bend is an awe-inspiring park
... for defense than the one they had chosen and the skill which they manifested in their breastwork was really astonishing,” Jackson wrote later. «The Alexander City Outlook, Jul 15»
Breach Inlet during the Battle of Sullivan's Island
... get into closer range, the British erected a battery on a marsh island (today's Clubhouse Island) using an oyster bank as a natural breastwork. «Moultrie News, Jun 15»
Weekend Walk: Discover A Lost City Wall
The Vertue map describes two batteries and a breastwork 'at Southampton, now Bedford House'. These would have sat just north of ... «Londonist, Jun 15»
Secrets of Chastain Park, Grant Park, and Piedmont Park
Located in the southeastern corner of the park, Fort Walker is Atlanta's last remaining Civil War breastwork, or line of defense, and part of the ... «Atlanta Magazine, Jun 15»
Civil War hero remembered by family at local cemetery
Consider a breastwork by the side of the road, the breastwork or wall fully manned, each man having extra cartridges laid to hand another line ... «Princeton Union Eagle, Jun 15»
Surbiton War Memorial commemorates local WW1 hero
“On the early morning of May 13 1915 when in charge of a portion of an advanced breastwork south of the Wietje-St Julien Road during a very ... «Kingston Upon Thames, May 15»
County historical site set for groundbreaking ceremony
Chicken had ordered the erection of breastwork there in order to strategically delay and divert the native war party. While a contingency ... «Berkeley Independent, May 15»
Washington County church tour includes Old Believers
... include a look at several old cemeteries, the 1906 dam and breastwork on nearby Ten Mile Creek and possibly the Marianna coke ovens. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr 15»
History of Laventille
Although now demoted to lowly use as a repeater site for the police radio units, there is a low breastwork of stone on a hill known as Fort ... «Trinidad Guardian, Mar 15»