A NEW AND ENLARGED MILITARY DICTIONARY, OR, ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL TERMS: CONTAINING, AMONG OTHER MATTER, A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS ALSO THE VARIOUS FRENCH PHRASES AND WORDS THAT HAVE AN IMMEDIATE, OR RELATIVE, CONNECTION OR MAY TEND TO GIVE GENERAL INFORMATION ON MILITARY By CHARLES JAMES, AUTHOR OF THE REGIMENTAL COMPANION; COMPREHENSIVE VIEW, &c.; POEMS, THE SECOND EDITION. Malheur aux apprentifs dont les sens égarés Si vous guidez trop tôt le Char brillant de Mars, KING OF PRUSSIA'S ART OF WAR. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. EGERTON, AT THE MILITARY LIBRARY, NEAR WHITEHALL. ΤΟ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FREDERICK DUKE OF YORK, FIELD MARSHAL, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, &c. &c. &c. SIR, HAD I not received permission to dedicate the annexed volume to your ROYAL HIGHNESS, your uniform attention to the real interests of the British army would naturally have pointed You out, as the fittest person to whom a work of this description ought to be inscribed. Your anxiety to encourage the most humble efforts, that individuals make for the benefit of any branch of the service, is at least equal to the importance of your station in it. On this account, You have a double claim to every production which has for its object the dissemi |