ANSE des Pieces, a French term for the handles of cannon. Those of brass have two—Those of iron seldom any—these handles serve to pass cords, handspikes, or levers, the more easily to move so heavy a body, and are made to represent dolphins, serpents, &c.
ANSPESADE. See [Lance Corporal].
ANTEMURAILLE, in the ancient military art, denoted what now the moderns generally call the outworks.
ANTESTATURE, in ancient fortification, signifies an intrenchment of pallisades or sacks of earth, thrown up in order to dispute the remainder of a piece of ground.
ANTHONY, or Knights of St. Anthony, a military order instituted by Albert, duke of Bavaria, Holland, and Zealand, when he designed to make war against the Turks in 1382. The knights wore a collar of gold made in the form of a hermit’s girdle, from which hung a stick like a crutch, with a little bell, as they are represented in St. Anthony’s pictures.
APPAREILLES, are those slopes that lead to the platform of the bastion. See [Fortification].
APPAREILLEUR, Fr. an architect who superintends the workmen in the construction of fortifications, sluices, &c.
APPEAL, might formerly have been made, by the prosecutor or prisoner, from the sentence or jurisdiction of a regimental to a general court-martial.
APPEL, Fr. a roll call; a beat of drum for assembling; a challenge.
Appel, in fencing, a smart beat with your blade on that of your antagonist on the contrary side to that you have engaged, generally accompanied with a stamp of the foot, and used for the purpose of procuring an opening.