=Draught-hook.= Either of two large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a gun-carriage, two on each side, used in drawing the gun backward and forward. =Drawbridge.= A bridge of which the whole or part is made to be let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle. It is called _bascule_, _swivel_, or _rolling_ bridge according as it turns on a hinge vertically, on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed lengthwise on rollers. =Drawing.= In a military sense, is the art of representing the appearances of all kinds of military objects by imitation or copying, both with and without the assistance of mathematical rules. =Drawn Battle.= A fight from which the combatants withdraw without either side claiming the victory. =Draw off, To.= In a military sense, means to retire; also to abstract or take away; as, to draw off your forces. To _draw on_ is to advance; also to occasion; as, to draw on an enemy’s fire. To _draw over_ is to persuade to revolt; to entice from a party. To _draw out_ is to call the soldiers forth in array for action. To _draw up_ is to form in battle array. To _draw out a party_ is to assemble any particular number of armed men for military duty. The French say, _faire un detachement_. =Drayton-in-Hales=, or =Market Drayton=. A town of England, in Shropshire. Here the partisans of the house of York defeated the Lancastrians in 1459. =Dresden.= The capital of the kingdom of Saxony, and one of the best built towns of Europe. Taken by Frederick of Prussia in 1756; by the Austrians in 1759; bombarded in vain by Frederick, July, 1760. On August 26-27, 1813, the allies were defeated in a terrible battle by the French under the walls of this city; and about a mile from it is a granite block, surmounted by a helmet, marking the spot where Moreau fell in the conflict, while conversing with the emperor Alexander. =Dress.= A word of command for alignment of troops; also of the alignment itself. =Dressers.= See GUIDES. =Dress, Full.= Dress uniform. The French is _grande tenue_, or _grande uniforme_. =Dress Parade.= Parade in full uniform; one of the ceremonies prescribed in tactics. =Dress, To.= To cause a company or battalion to take such a position or order as will preserve an exact continuity of line in the whole front, or in whatever shape the command is to be formed. Soldiers dress by one another in ranks, and the body collectively by some given object. To _dress the line_ is to arrange any given number of soldiers, so as to stand perfectly correct with regard to the several points of an alignment that have been taken up. =Dress Uniform.= The dress prescribed for occasions of ceremony. =Dreux.= An old town of France, in the department of the Eure and Loire, on the Blaise. In 1188 this town was burned by the English; and in 1562 the Prince of Condé was taken prisoner in a severe action fought between the Huguenots and Roman Catholics in its neighborhood.