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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the Duane, William

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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the

Name: A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the
Author: Duane, William

Duane, William

English language -- Terms and phrases; Military art and science -- Dictionaries

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_Musquet_ CARTRIDGES, by different powers in Europe.

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  |     of    | English.  |  Hessian. | Austrian. |
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  |           |oz. dr. gr. |oz. dr. gr. |
  |Powder     | 0  10 10¹⁄₂| 0   7  4¹⁄₂|
  |Cartridges,|            |            |
  |complete.  | 1  12  4   | 1   6  0   |
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CASCABLE, in artillery, is the very hindermost knob or button of the
cannon, or the utmost part of the breech. See CANNON.

CASCANS, in fortification, holes in the form of wells, serving as
entrances to galleries, or giving vent to the enemy’s mines. See
FORTIFICATION.

CASEMATE, in fortification, a vault, or arch of mason-work, in that
part of the flank of a bastion which is next the curtain, made
to defend the ditch, and the face of the opposite bastion. See
FORTIFICATION.

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