With respect to an army composed of several regiments, the following fall under the description of hauts officiers according to the old French system: generals, lieutenant-generals, colonels, and lieutenant-colonels. The hauts-officiers, or superior officers in distinct corps, were majors, aid-majors, captains, lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, and ensigns.
HAYE, Fr. a military disposition in which soldiers stood aside one another on a straight line. Se mettre en haie, is to stand rank entire. Faire un double haie, to stand two deep. Border la haie, is a disposition to which infantry has recourse when attacked by cavalry. See Border la Haye.
HAZAREE, an East Indian term signifying a commander of armed men.
HEAD, in gunnery, the fore part of the cheeks of a gun or howitz carriage.
Head of a work, in fortification, is the front next to the enemy, and farthest from the place; as the front of a horn-work is the distance between the flanked angles of the demi-bastions: the head of a double tenaille is the salient angle in the centre, and the two other sides which form the re-entering angles. See [Fort].
Head of an army, or body of men, is the front, whether drawn up in lines, or on a march.
Head of a double tenaille, the salient angle in the centre, and the two other sides which form the re-entering angle.
Head-piece, armor for the head; an helmet, such as the light dragoons wear.
Head-of a camp, the ground before which the army is drawn up.
Head-Quarters, the place where the officer commanding an army or independent body of troops takes up his residence.