ADVANTAGE Ground, a ground that gives superiority, or an opportunity of annoyance or resistance.
ADVICE-Boat, a vessel employed for intelligence.
ADVOCATE General. See [Judge Martial].
ÆNEATORES, in military antiquity, the musicians in an army; including those who sounded the trumpets, horns, litui, buccincæ, &c.
AFFAIR, in the military acceptation of the word, means any slight action or engagement.
Affair of Honor, a duel.
AFFAMER, une Place, Fr. to besiege a place so closely as to starve the garrison and inhabitants. See [Blockade].
AFFIDAVIT, in military law, signifies an oath taken before some person who is properly authorised to administer it; as first, when a soldier is inlisted, when it is stiled an attestation; secondly, by all officers appointed on a court-martial; thirdly, by the commissaries, or muster-masters.
AFFRONTER, Fr. to encounter or attack boldly.
AFFUT, the French name for a gun-carriage, and for which we have no appropriate name; the only distinction from all other carriages is, that it belongs to a gun. See [Carriage].