a small breastwork

См. также в других словарях:

• Monitor (warship) — This page is about the Monitor type of warships. For the U.S. Navy warship which gave its name to this type, see USS Monitor. The USS Monitor, the first monitor (1861). A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor… …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Bunker Hill — For a list of numerous places and things that are named after this battle, see Bunker Hill (disambiguation). Battle of Bunker Hill Part of the American Revolutionary War …   Wikipedia

• Cyclops class monitor — Right elevation plan from Brassey s Naval Annual 1888–1889 Class overview Name: Cyclops class …   Wikipedia

• Ironclad warship — An ironclad was a steam propelled warship of the later 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates. [Hill, Richard. War at Sea in the Ironclad Age ISBN 0 304 35273 X; p.17] The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of… …   Wikipedia

• Coastal defence ship — The Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen, one of the last examples of the type. Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the… …   Wikipedia

• List of established military terms — This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Technology has changed so not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern ones. However they are still in current use… …   Wikipedia

• Pre-dreadnought battleship — is the general term for all of the types of sea going battleships built between the mid 1890s and 1905. Pre dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad warships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, and protected by hardened steel armour, pre… …   Wikipedia

• cotton gin — a machine for separating the fibers of cotton from the seeds. [1790 1800, Amer.] * * * Machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds. The design that became standard was invented in the U.S. by Eli Whitney in 1793. The mechanization of spinning in… …   Universalium

• Walls of Constantinople — Istanbul, Turkey Map showing Constantinople and its walls du …   Wikipedia

• First English Civil War — The First English Civil War (1642–1646) was the first of three wars known as the English Civil War (or Wars ). The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and… …   Wikipedia

• Castle — This article is about medieval fortifications. For other uses, see Castle (disambiguation). For a list of all castles, see List of castles. For similar but unrelated structures in Japan, see Japanese castle …   Wikipedia