Word: earthworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working hours will be devoted to plane and topographic surveying, including cartography, triangulations, land, road and shoreline surveys, and observations for the determination of meridian and latitude; railroad surveying, with earthwork, slope-staking, preliminary survey, estimate of quantities and cost and other subjects connected with the laying of railroads will also be a part of the curriculum...
...afternoon of Oct. 16, 1781, was cloudy. The sun sank sullen and red. With the night, came winds and rain. Stretched in a semicircle about Yorktown, American troops under General Washington lay in their earthworks, some putting back into service the guns of two redoubts that had been captured and spiked by a British assault under Lieutenant Colonel Abercrombie in the forenoon but recovered later in a counterassault. About 300 yards away lay the British, in the inner circle of Yorktown's earthwork defenses. In the town, Lord Charles Cornwallis took counsel with his officers. North of them...