ROUGES, boulets Rouges, Fr. Red-hot balls.
ROUGH Rider. A person who is indispensably necessary in every cavalry regiment. He is a sort of non-commissioned officer, and should always associate with the serjeants in preference to the private men.
Rough Riders are the assistants of the riding master, and one should always be appointed to each troop. The necessary qualifications, for every Rough Rider (independently of a thorough knowlege of horsemanship) are activity, zeal, and good conduct.
Every rough rider must provide himself with a proper jacket for the riding school business, according to the pattern fixed upon in the regiment.
To ROUGH horses, a word in familiar use among the dragoons to signify the act of breaking in horses, so as to adapt them to military purposes.
To ROUGH it, a cant word used among military men, signifying to face every sort of hardship.
ROULEAU, Fr. A cylindrical piece of wood with iron ferrels at both ends, and with mortises fitted to the end of the lever.
Rouleau de cartouche, Fr. A cylindrical solid piece of wood, which is used in making cartridges; by us called a Former, as it give the form to the cartridge.
ROULEAUX, Fr. Round bundles of fascines which are tied together. They serve to cover men, when the works are pushed close to a besieged town, or to mask the head of a work.
ROULEMENTS, Fr. The several rolls which are beat upon a drum, as preparations for exercise, &c.