Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . width at the capital, which is sometimes added infrom of the caponier; a ditch 10 yards wide may be formed in front and rear of it. Its salients beingmade circidar and loop holed, a close and powerfultire can be brought to bear uprmllie enemy if he suc-ceeds in establishing himself in the ravelin. Thename miiHlc is given to this reiloubt, as it ads us aneHicicMt mask or counter-guard to the caponier. wire cage to protect the, facer in fencing. Fig. 1represents the ordinary frnrin;/ iniiKk, furnislied w illiears and front
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . width at the capital, which is sometimes added infrom of the caponier; a ditch 10 yards wide may be formed in front and rear of it. Its salients beingmade circidar and loop holed, a close and powerfultire can be brought to bear uprmllie enemy if he suc-ceeds in establishing himself in the ravelin. Thename miiHlc is given to this reiloubt, as it ads us aneHicicMt mask or counter-guard to the caponier. wire cage to protect the, facer in fencing. Fig. 1represents the ordinary frnrin;/ iniiKk, furnislied w illiears and fronts. Fig. 2, represents the hiiu rapiermanic padded. A. As a military expression, mniik,Is used in several senses. A mnsked lattery is oneso constructed, with a grassy glacis, etc., as to behidden from the view of Ihe enemy until, tr) his sur-prise, it suddenly opens tire upon him—on his flank,perhaps. The lire of a battery is OTOs/c^rf when some. other work, or a body of friendly troops, intervenesin the line of tire, and jirecludes the use of the fortress or an army is maxkrd when a superior forceof the enemy holds it in check, while some hostileevolution is beins carried out MASON AND .^IXONS line f riginatedin t lie (lifiiculf ies which occurred in tracing the bound-ary line of a tract of land granted to William Pennin 1081. This land lay west of the Delaware andnorth of Jlaryland. and a part of its southern bound-ary was defined to be a circle drawn at 12 milesdistant from Newcastle northwards and westwardsinto the beginning of the 40 of northern , Penn received another grant, and, his agentbeing unable to agree with the authorities in Ameri-ca as to the just boundary, he came to this countryhimself in 1682 to establish his claim and take pos-session of his land. He was opposed by Lord Bal-timore, the matter was referred to the Committee ofTrade and Plantations, a change in the reigning mon-
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