The shrill call of a whistle showed that St. Luc himself was near, and Frenchmen, Canadians and Indians, at the edge of the cleared ground and in the first line of stumps, poured a storm of bullets against the breastwork and into the camp.
Volunteers held the sunken ground between the breastwork and the outlet of Lake George, a strong force of regulars and Canadians was on the side of Lake Champlain under the guns of the fort there.
Then the entire battalion of Berry went to work at once with spade and pick and ax to prepare a breastwork and abattis, stretching a line of defense in front of the fort, and not using the fort itself.
Behind thebreastwork all the men were now mixed up--musketeers with pikemen and lathiwallahs.
There he caused the beasts to be unyoked, and placed the hackeris, their poles interlocked, so as to form a rough semicircular breastwork around the summit of the mound.
Several sprang over thebreastwork and scuttled away like scared rabbits.
Footnote 62: Fort Misery was a breastwork at the mouth of Moses's kill, or creek, a short distance from Fort Miller, on the east side of the Hudson.
Footnote 151: They threw up a slight breastwork a little in advance of their lines on the neck, and not far from the George tavern.
Footnote 67: Fort Musquito was a breastwork cast up at the mouth of Snooks' creek.
The British had no suspicion of the work that went on during that sultry June night, and were greatly alarmed when they saw a formidable breastwork overlooking their shipping in the harbor, and menacing the city.
Footnote 142: When the British built their breastwork on the neck, the Sunday previous, they had a floating battery brought into Charles river, and moored it within three hundred yards of Sewall's point.
Footnote 138: On that day the British, five hundred strong, marched over the neck, and built a slight breastwork to cover their guard.
Here he halted, and, after a careful inspection of the breastwork which barred his entrance to the Plaza, dismounted half his men and sent their horses to the rear.
On the mound a party of the Catalan regiment were hard at work raising a stoutbreastwork and laying down a platform for a heavy gun, which stood in the street behind.
This breastwork was merely a line of barrels set on end across the street, topped with a row of sacks filled with sand, to demolish which would be easy if it could be reached.
Besides the naval battery, there were several army guns mounted in a breastwork and served by a battalion of Artillery, under the command of Major A.
We could see the enemy approach the breastwork in front of the camp.
In front he threw up a breastwork and sunk a trench.
Especially went Stark and his New Hampshire men, who posted themselves behind a breastwork of fence rails and hay.
Picking out an especially narrow place, Jackson built a breastwork of cotton bales and rubbish.
But in spite of the balls Colonel Prescott walked on the top of the breastwork while his men went on digging.
A minute later he was looking over our breastwork into the shallow cave, showing his teeth, which shone in the gloom as he exclaimed: "Black fellow dreffle hungry.
In fact in five minutes or so we were comparatively safe; in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour ourbreastwork was so strengthened that we began to breathe freely.
A breastwork of rails was thrown together, colors planted, a nucleus made, and both flanks grew longer and longer with wonderful rapidity.
The enemy soon vacated thebreastwork in our immediate front, and crept off through the darkness.
Scarcely had these ceased when the King of Abra, a splendid looking negro standing nearly six feet four in height, stepped out from behind the breastwork and shouted a taunting challenge to the Ashantis to come on.
On wall and roof of the village the slugs pattered thickly; but the defenders were all in shelter, and in reply, from breastwork and loophole, from the windows and roof of the church, the answering Snider bullets flew out straight and deadly.
The troops were set to work to cut the bush round the village, which was a very small one, and a breastwork was thrown up round it.
These had well-nigh reached the breastwork of the dam; and Harry wished very much to intercept them as they got to land.
The builders of that breastwork were before my eyes, and apparently just resting from their labours.
The breastwork appeared to be quite finished; but this did not follow from the fact that the animals were no longer at work upon it, as it is only by night they perform such labour.
They appeared to be resting after their night's work, it is not likely that they had built the whole breastwork during that one night, but had only put on the finishing part which had produced the sudden flood.
Suddenly I ran against a sort of breastwork of mortared stones, and the shock almost made me faint.
Just before we came to the low stone breastwork which had given me such a shock a few minutes before, we heard some one whistling a bar of a tune.
Roads have been cut across the rear face of the hill, a breastwork of stones and earth encircles the Reservoir, and gun emplacements flank either extremity.
The breastwork at the rail-fence was built under Putnam's orders by the Connecticut and a few Massachusetts troops, though Frothingham does not give him the credit of it.
Bancroft, the distinguished captain in the redoubt, says he was at the laying-out of the works by Putnam, and that the rail breastwork was formed and lined under the direction of Putnam.
Breastwork of Dilao One demi-saker of three libras caliber, old casting of Manila, length thirty-three calibers.
Recapitulation of the Artillery Fort of Santhiago 26 pieces Breastwork of S.
First we visited the bluff on the edge of which is constructed a breastwork of cotton bales, which no infantry could get at, and which would offer no resistance to vertical and but little to horizontal fire.
We were after them in a moment, each racing to be first, jumping the breastwork with a bound, and seeing them flying helter-skelter to the far end.
For the next few days I spent most of my time on shore, landing at sunrise and supervising, in a sort of way, the destruction of the ruined sheikh's house, and the strengthening of the breastwork and the wire entanglements.
Mr. Scarlett, without orders, took the risk and fired a shell among this lot, and made them scramble over the breastwork again out of sight.
As we came back to the front side I saw that thirty or forty men were already shovelling the breastwork back into the trench.
They then built a breastwork of logs on the beach, and above the tide, reaching to the bow of their craft, to run the boards on.
They lengthened their breastwork a little, hauled the craft alongside of it, and made a stage of plank.
On the White Bull was a breastwork of stones that Ben had made, to stand behind and shoot ducks.
The farther point of this hill was held-by the enemy with a breastwork of logs and fresh earth, filled with men and two guns.
The heart waits not the guidance of the senses --real sentiment needs nobreastwork of outward ornament.
That woman's whole art is enlisted in fortifying a defenceless position, just as in chess the pieces move and form a breastwork round the defenceless king?
The whole line of the breastwork now became as a blaze of fire, which lasted nearly till the close of the day.
No other word was uttered, for even with the girl's assistance it was with the utmost difficulty that the man reached the breastwork of the hut, and when he had succeeded in clambering over it, he lay down and fainted.
Meanwhile Softswan, re-arranging and re-examining her firearm, sat down behind the breastworkto guard the fort.
On what may be called the land side of the hut there was a slight breastwork of logs.
A breastwork was hastily erected on the only spot where a landing could be effected, and the militia placed behind it.
Thinking only of retreat he had neglected to erect a breastwork or cut a ditch in front of his position, which would have effectually prevented a cavalry attack.
The Battalion altered its objective from the farm building to a breastwork 200 yards to the west of it.
Three platoons were, therefore, detailed to hold the right of the breastwork in immediate proximity to the mound, and the rest of the Battalion was withdrawn to Voormezeele, reaching Dickebush about 8 a.
