Place of assembly in case of alarm. Placing in line. The piece of leather or sheet lead which covers the vent of a cannon. Signal to form by company. An elevation of earth within a fort, three or four feet wide, and less than five feet from the top of the parapet, to enable short men to fire over.
Guns stand on raised platforms and fire over the parapet, thus having a free range.
A work at one of the angles of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks. A narrow space between parapet and ditch. To camp round fires without the shelter of tents. Uniform time and step in marching. The ammunition wagon accompanying a cannon.