American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... glacis , and is more properly the empty space between the citadel and the houses of a town . ESQUIRE , was anciently the person that attended a knight in the time of war , and carried his shield . This title has not for a long time had ...
... glacis , and is more properly the empty space between the citadel and the houses of a town . ESQUIRE , was anciently the person that attended a knight in the time of war , and carried his shield . This title has not for a long time had ...
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... glacis reciprocally , and would , as be- fore remarked , subject the besieger to a dangerous enfilade , or flanking fire , were he to proceed without due attention to their obnoxious positions . In works of more sides , where the angles ...
... glacis reciprocally , and would , as be- fore remarked , subject the besieger to a dangerous enfilade , or flanking fire , were he to proceed without due attention to their obnoxious positions . In works of more sides , where the angles ...
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... glacis g , at the saliant point q ; whence they would batter the flanks ⚫S , and wv . Then , as nothing could oppose their passage over the ditch , which if wet would be passed by sap , ( i . e . by filling up with fascines , & c ...
... glacis g , at the saliant point q ; whence they would batter the flanks ⚫S , and wv . Then , as nothing could oppose their passage over the ditch , which if wet would be passed by sap , ( i . e . by filling up with fascines , & c ...
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... glacis g , at Ø , opposite to the flanked angle of the bastion C , in the horn - work M , carried through the cen- tre all the way up to E , which is the cen- tre of the polygon , should graze the crests or inner summits of all the ...
... glacis g , at Ø , opposite to the flanked angle of the bastion C , in the horn - work M , carried through the cen- tre all the way up to E , which is the cen- tre of the polygon , should graze the crests or inner summits of all the ...
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... glacis , before the salient angle of the bastion 5 . Tenaillons , ( signifying piercers , or claws , ) are sometimes made on each side of a raveline , and even beyond them a small detached raveline , or a bonnet , is sometimes added ...
... glacis , before the salient angle of the bastion 5 . Tenaillons , ( signifying piercers , or claws , ) are sometimes made on each side of a raveline , and even beyond them a small detached raveline , or a bonnet , is sometimes added ...
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