=Anisocycle.= An ancient machine of a spiral form, like the spring of a watch, used for throwing arrows to a great distance. =Anitorgis.= A city in Spain, near which Asdrubal, general of the Carthaginians, gained a memorable battle over the Romans under Scipio and his brother Publius, in 212 B.C. =Anjou=, or =Beauge, Battle of=. Between the English and French; the latter commanded by the Dauphin of France, March 22, 1421. The English were defeated; the Duke of Clarence was slain by Sir Allan Swinton, a Scotch knight, and 1500 men perished on the field; the Earls of Somerset, Dorset, and Huntingdon were taken prisoners. Beauge was the first battle that turned the tide of success against the English. =Annals.= A species of military history, wherein events are related in the chronological order they happened. They differ from a perfect history, in being only a mere relation of what passes every year, as a journal is of what passes every day. =Annatinæ.= Were transport-ships (so called by Julius Cæsar) in which were transported provisions, etc., to armies and fleets. Also called _Corbitæ_. =Anneau d’Or= (_Fr._). A gold ring. In accordance with the example of the ancients, Francis I. of France instituted a military recompense in the shape of an _anneau_, for all who distinguished themselves in any military enterprise. =Annee de Corbie= (_Fr._). Name given to the year 1636, when the capture of Corbie (by the Austrians), a small city of the department of the Somme, France (during the war which Richelieu had decided to undertake against the Austrian house), nearly caused the overthrow of France. =Anne, St., Order of.= An order of knighthood, originally established in Holstein, and carried with the princes of that country into Russia. It was made a Russian order in 1796, and is now widely diffused. =Annihilate.= To reduce to nothing; to destroy the existence of; to cause or cease to be; as, the army was annihilated. =Annoy.= To injure or disturb by continued or repeated acts; to incommode or molest; as, to annoy an army by impeding their march, or by a continued cannonade. =Annuity.= A sum of money payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life or forever; an annual allowance. The U. S. government furnishes annuities and annuity goods to certain tribes of Indians. =Annul.= To make void, or of no effect; to abrogate; to rescind;--used of laws, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by competent authority. =Annunciada.= An order of military knighthood in Savoy, first instituted by Amadeus I. in the year 1409; their collar was of fifteen links, interwoven one with another, and the motto “F. E. R. T.,” signifying _fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit_. Amadeus VIII. changed the image of St. Maurice, patron of Savoy, which hung at the collar, for that of the Virgin Mary, and instead of the motto above mentioned, substituted the words of the angel’s salutation. Now extinct.