Soldiership. A term which is rarely used; it means military qualities; military character or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.
Soldiery. A body of soldiers collectively considered; the military. “A camp of faithful soldiery.”
Solduriers (Fr.). A term anciently used among the French, to signify those persons who attached themselves to some particular general or military knight, whose fortunes they followed, in consequence of being paid and supported by him.
Sole. The bottom or lower surface of an embrasure.
Solferino. A village of Northern Italy, province of Brescia, 20 miles northeast from Mantua. Here, in 1796, the French conquered the Austrians, and on June 24, 1859, it was again the scene of an overwhelming victory obtained by the French and Italians over the Austrians.
Soli. An ancient town of Asia Minor, on the coast of Cilicia. In the war between Mithridates and the Romans, Soli was destroyed by Tigranes, but subsequently rebuilt by Pompey, who settled there many of the pirates whom he had captured, and called the town after himself, Pompeiapolis.
Solicinium. A town in Roman Germany, on the mountain Pirus, where Valentinian gained a victory over the Alemanni in 369, probably in the neighborhood of the modern Heidelberg.
Solid Shot. See [Projectile].
Solid Square. A square body of troops; a body in which the ranks and files are equal.
Sollerets (Fr.). Armor for the feet.