What is "fieldworks"

Usage examples of "fieldworks".

The officer had plucked off his hat and was waving it frantically toward the Creek fieldworks, using only one hand to guide the horse.

Still, better that than to try to scale those fieldworks exhausted and out of breath.

Better still, the canal itself could easily and quickly be turned into a moat, with solid fieldworks behind it.

With Jackson and his men busier than bees—oh, yes, I saw them myself—erecting solid fieldworks to block the way at the Rodriguez Canal.

That done, it would be just as easy to turn Marigny's Canal into the same sort of fieldworks that he'd contructed on the Rodriguez Canal, with the added advantage of having Fort St.

The fieldworks at the canal covered little more than half a mile of front, and by now Jackson had thousands of soldiers available.

To break that line and defeat the American soldiers who held it, the British would have to cross a ten-foot-wide waterway and clamber up the fieldworks it fronted.

Where Jackson, on the east bank, had turned the Rodriguez Canal into a formidable line of fieldworks, Morgan on the west bank had been satisfied to dig a shallow ditch and call the piled-up dirt behind it a "breastwork.

The fieldworks were so shallow that men had to crouch or even lie down in order to be protected by it.

I have sent orders to the north and west to have estate-holders get their serfs out to start building fieldworks for us.

The Army of Franklin—the Thunderer grant that it see once more the province for which it was named—was not defeated in the fieldworks it was trying to defend.

The catapults in the fieldworks answered back as best they could, but Doubting George had ordered far more engines into action than Joseph the Gamecock had left with the defenders.

He wasn't so happy to have left the fieldworks himself, but he had his orders and he had to obey them.

Instead, his own men were back in the fieldworks from which they'd set out so boldly that morning—those who could come back to the works, at any rate.

They had a great many more engines in amongst these fieldworks than they'd used farther forward.