Here was a battery with earthworks; there, a fort; beyond, a signal-staff.

We kept the earthworks and trenches of the front on our right.

Now the ramparts and earthworks are overrun and almost hidden by roses.

The messenger would have to run the gauntlet of the enemy's earthworks.

Several had been posted behind some earthworks thrown up by the enemy.

He pointed out over the maze of ditches and earthworks and foundations.

Local tradition gives to these ancient earthworks the name of Attila's Camp.

This also was fortified by water and earthworks, but not so strongly.

Johnston believed that Banks, behind the earthworks at Strasburg, was securely sheltered.

He regained the earthworks, now a bloodied steaming heap of half-dismembered corpses.

These earthworks have been considered Saxon, but later opinion labels them post-Conquest.

He has designed 200-mile-long earthworks for uranium-mine tailings on the Colorado Plateau.

It has dug no trenches, built no earthworks, thrown up no abatis!

Areas monitored included those where earthworks and harvesting had recently happened.

Not far from him, Laveaux pulled up his horse and faced the earthworks.

Here the enemy was formed in force, with a line of strong earthworks.