To give an Assault, is to attack any post, &c.
To repulse an Assault, to cause the assailants to retreat, to beat them back.
To carry by Assault, to gain a post by storm, &c.
ASSAUT, Fr. See [Assault].
ASSIEGER, Fr. to besiege.
ASSEMBLEE, Fr. the assembling together of an army. Also a call, or beat of the drum. See [Assembly].
ASSEMBLY, the second beating of the drum before a march; at which the men strike their tents, if encamped, roll them up, and stand to arms. See [Drum].
ASSESSMENT, in a military sense, signifies a certain rate which is paid in England by the county treasurer to the receiver-general of the land-tax, to indemnify any place for not having raised the militia; which sum is to be paid by the receiver-general into the exchequer. The sum to be assessed is five pounds for each man, where no annual certificate of the state of the militia has been transmitted to the clerk of the peace: if not paid before June yearly it may be levied on the parish officers. Such assessment where there is no county rate is to be raised as the poor’s rate.
ASSIETTE, Fr. the immediate scite or position of a camp.
ASSOCIATION, any number of men embodied in arms for mutual defence in their district; and to preserve the public tranquility therein, against foreign or domestic enemies.