A wall of timber, often with loopholes for musket fire. Same as palisade.

An older term for a belt (worn diagonally from the right shoulder) that supports a sword scabbard. Banquette:

A wooden or earthen platform inside a fortification, on which the cannon were placed in order to allow them to shoot over the rampart. Often, the same as a terreplein. Barrel:

An artillery projectile consisting of a metal bar with a solid half-sphere at each end. Often used as sea (as with chain-shot) to damage rigging. Basket:

A strongpoint in the curtain wall of a fortress, usually V-shaped, angled out beyond the main line of the walls of a fortress. From it, attackers along the curtain could be cross-fired upon. With a fi [..]

A body of foot soldiers, subdivided into companies ( but sometimes identical with 'regiment'). Also a designation indicating a soldier belongs to the main body of soldiers (hatt companies) r [..]

Pointed blade that can be readily affixed to the muzzle end of a bayonet, for use in defense or attack. In the first years of the Revolutionary War, this was an item that the Rebels did not usually ha [..]

A thick-walled defensive building constructed of masonry or logs, with loopholes for muskets. Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts has such a log blockhouse. Bomb or Shell:

A measurement of the inner size of a barrel. A 12 bore means that 12 lead bullets that perfectly fit the barrel weigh 1lb; a 16 bore takes bullets that weigh 16 to the pound. Thus a 12 bore is larger [..]

Menswear for the lower torso, with the legs ending just below the knee. The garment was later replaced in the army by trousers. In the First Foot Guards mustered for duty on service in America in 1776 [..]