A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary: Or, Alphabetical Explanation of Technical Terms: Containing, Among Other Matter, a Succinet Account of the Different Systems of Fortification, Tactics, &c. Also the Various French Phrases and Words that Have an Immediate, Or Relative, Connection with the British Service, Or May Tend to Give General Information on Military Subjects in Either LanguageT. Egerton at the Military Library, 1805 - 1008 páginas |
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... keep him back , or to attack him . To effect all this , it is necessary , that the commander in chief of an army should have a quick eye , which is no other than that penetrating genius that suffers nothing to escape it ; which looks ...
... keep him back , or to attack him . To effect all this , it is necessary , that the commander in chief of an army should have a quick eye , which is no other than that penetrating genius that suffers nothing to escape it ; which looks ...
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... keep pace with my Bookseller's eagerness to have it ready for sale , and with my Printer's laudable and unwearied zeal to correspond with the wishes of his employer . It is some sort of consolation , even to men of superior abilities ...
... keep pace with my Bookseller's eagerness to have it ready for sale , and with my Printer's laudable and unwearied zeal to correspond with the wishes of his employer . It is some sort of consolation , even to men of superior abilities ...
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... keep the way dry . AGGER is also used for the whole road , or military way . Where high- ways were to be made in low grounds , as between two hills , the Romans used to raise them above the adjacent land , so as to make them of a level ...
... keep the way dry . AGGER is also used for the whole road , or military way . Where high- ways were to be made in low grounds , as between two hills , the Romans used to raise them above the adjacent land , so as to make them of a level ...
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... keep up the enthusiasm of the bravest . Many battles , both in ancient and modern times , have taken a sudden turn from the most trivial circumstance of this nature . During last war , a large body of French troops , who landed at St ...
... keep up the enthusiasm of the bravest . Many battles , both in ancient and modern times , have taken a sudden turn from the most trivial circumstance of this nature . During last war , a large body of French troops , who landed at St ...
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... keep the enemy in conti- nual alarm . A naval or sea ARMY , is a number of ships of war , equipped and manned with sailors , mariners , and marines , under the command of an admiral , with the requisite inferior officers un- der him ...
... keep the enemy in conti- nual alarm . A naval or sea ARMY , is a number of ships of war , equipped and manned with sailors , mariners , and marines , under the command of an admiral , with the requisite inferior officers un- der him ...
Términos y frases comunes
according ancient angle arms army artillery attack bastion battalion battery battle belonging besieged body brigade called camp cannon captain carriage cavalry chief colours column commanding officer consists corps counterscarp court-martial cover defence deputy lieutenants detached diameter direction distance ditch division duty earth enemy enemy's equal expence face feet files fire flank foot fortification France French front gabions garrison given glacis grenadiers ground guard GUERRE hastati head horse inches infantry iron king lieutenant likewise manner Marshal Saxe mealed powder means ment military sense militia mortar motion movement neral non-commissioned officers observed old French parapet person purpose quarters rampart rank ravelin rear regiment regulations Roman saltpetre secretary at war serjeant serve shot side siege signifies soldiers sometimes sort squadrons square sword term tion toises town troops weight wheel whole word