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attend their leader?, and supply theplaces of those who were either killedor wounded. Livy mentions them asirregular troops, hut little esteemed.—Salmasius tells us, they were taken outof the fifth class of the poor citizens ofHome.
ACCESSIBLE, (accessible, Fr.) thatwhich may be approached. We say, ina military style, that place, or that for-tress, is accessible from the sea, or land,i. e. it may be entered on those sides.
ACCLAMATIONS , Fr. shouts ofjoy, &c. usually given by troops underarms, amidst the discharge of cannon,&c. on the surrender of a place: or intestimony of some great event: we usethe term cheers.
ACCLIVITY, in a military sense, isthe steepness or slope of any work, in-clined to the horizon, reckoned upwards.Some writers on fortification use accli-Vity as synonitnous to talus; thoughtalus is commonly used to denote allmanner of slopes.
ACCOMPANIMENT, something at-tendant on, or added to, another byway of ornament, or for the sake ofsymmetry.
ACCONTIUM, in ancient militarywriters, a kind of Grecian dart or jave-lin, somewhat resembling the Homanpilum.
ACCOTEMENT , Fr. an upsetting;among paviors, a space of ground whichis between the border of a road and theditch; a sort of footpath by which theroad is widened. l)es-Aceotement sig-nifies the reverse, or having both sidesuncovered, or not upset.
Pap or Personal ACCOUNT, an ac-count which is kept by army agents, spe-cifying the several sums of money whichhave been received or disbursed for anofficer under the heads of subsistenceand allowances.
Clothing Account, an account which15 kept by army agents, stating the sumsof money which have been received ordisbursed for a colonel on a.ccount ofthe clothing of his regiment.
ACCOUNTANT (Public). Everyofficer, he his rank and situation ever sohigh or low, becomes a public account-ant the instant he is entrusted withthe receipt and distribution of publicproperty; and until he receive hisquietus, he and his heirs remain amena-ble to the crown—nullum tempus oc-snrrit Regi.
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ACCOUTREMENTS, in a militarysense, signify habits, equipage, or furni-ture, of a soldier, such as buffs, belts,pouches, cartridge boxes, &c. Accou-trements should be made of stout,smooth buff, as well for the service to beexpected from them, as for their supe-rior look above the spongy kind, whichis always stretching, and difficult toclean. The huff belts are about 2Jinches broad, with two buckles to fixthem to the pouch. Pouches are madeof the stoutest blackened calf-skin,especially the outside flaps, which areof such a substance as to turn the se-verest rain. Cartridge-boxes are madeas light as possible, with 36 holes ineach, to hold so many cartridges. Thebayonet-belt is also 2J inches broad,and better worn over the shoulder thanabout the waist.
ACCULER une arm'te, une troupe,Fr. to drive an army or body of meninto such a situation that they musteither fight or surrender; also to cometo close action.
ACERER, Fr. to mix steel with iron;thus the point, or edge, of a tool is saidto be then ache, well steeled, when themixture of steel is pure.
ACIIARNEMENT, Fr. the rage andfrenzy to which soldiers are subjectedin the heat of an engagement.; a thirstfor blood and carnage.
ACLIDES, in Roman antiquity, akind of missive weapon, with a thongfixed to it, whereby it might be drawnhack again. Most authors describe theaclides as a dart or javelin ; but Scaliger makes it somewhat of a round and glo-bular shape, with a wooden stem to poiseit by.
ACOLUTHI, in military antiquity,was a title in the Grecian empire givento the captain or commander of the va~rangi, or body guards, appointed for thesecurity of the emperor’s palace.
ACROTERIA, (acrolires, Fr.) inarchitecture, small pedestals, usuallywithout bases, placed on pediments,and serving to support statues.
Sometimes acroteriais used to signifythose sharp pinnacles, or spiral battle-ments, which stand in ranges about flatbuildings, with rails and balustrades.
ACT1AN games, in antiquity, weregames instituted, or at least restored,by Augustus , in memory of the famousvictory, at Actiuui, over Mark An-| thoriy,