. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. ions at war, by mutual con-sent. It sometimes occurs owing to theexhaustion of both parties; at othertimes it is had recourse to with a viewto arrange terms of peace. It may beeither general or partial; the former, be- the body from wounds or to annoy theenemy. Hence it was divided into twokinds, defensive and offensive. A com-plete suit of defensive armor ancientlyconsisted of a casque or helm, a gorget,cuirass, gauntlets, tasses, brassets,cuishes and covers for the leg
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. ions at war, by mutual con-sent. It sometimes occurs owing to theexhaustion of both parties; at othertimes it is had recourse to with a viewto arrange terms of peace. It may beeither general or partial; the former, be- the body from wounds or to annoy theenemy. Hence it was divided into twokinds, defensive and offensive. A com-plete suit of defensive armor ancientlyconsisted of a casque or helm, a gorget,cuirass, gauntlets, tasses, brassets,cuishes and covers for the legs, to whichthe spurs were fastened. This wascalled armor cap-a-pie, and was worn bycavaliers and men-at-arms. The in-fantry had only part of it, viz., a pot orhead-piece, a cuirass and tasses; all ofthem made light. The horses had ar-mor which covered the head and all this equipment of war scarcelyanything is now retained except, in a AEMOBED TRAIN 262 ARMORED TRAIN few cases, the cuirass. One of the fewpicturesque features of the World Warwas the revival of the use of armor inother protective devices of a locomotive with boiler plate andequipped cars, similarly protected, withfield guns and put them to effective prac-tical use. But the germ of the idea goesback further than 1882. When the Ger-mans closed their vise-like grip uponParis, the French made frequent sortiesfrom the city, and in many of these at-tacks the guns were mounted on rail-road cars protected at vital points by ITALIAN ARMOR, 1460 The word is applied to the metal pro-tection given to ships of war, usuallythe employment of steel helmets, andconsisting of super-carbonized steel ornickel steel. See Armor Plates. ARMORED TRAIN, one of the moderninstruments of war. Credit has beengiven to Admiral Fisher of the Britishnavy for the first use of the armoredtrain in war, when, in 1882, he covered
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