Unreferenced date October 2009 In fortification , a commanding ground is an area that overlooks any post, or strong place. Of this there were three sorts first, a front commanding ground , which is a height opposite to the face of the post, which plays upon its front second, a reverse commanding ground , which is an eminence that can play upon the back of any place or post and third, an enfilade commanding ground , or curtain commanding ground , which is a high place, that can with its shot scour all the length of a straight line. 1728 Category Fortification fort stub ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Opaques Type studio Artist Muslimgauze Commented out because image was deleted Cover MuslimgauzeOpaquesCover.jpg Released 1983 Recorded Birch Lane Studio Genre Length Label Product Kinematograph br small PKR 2 small Producer Reviews Last album Kabul Muslimgauze 12 Vinyl Kabul br 1983 This album Opaques br 1983 Next album Hunting Out With An Aerial Eye br 1984 Opaques is an album by Muslimgauze . Track listing Side A Milena Jesenska 5 40 Cyst 4 22 Anatomy 5 09 Enfilade 4 54 Afrikaner 1 08 Side B Taoist 18 57 Category 1983 albums Category Muslimgauze albums ... more details
nearly 50 guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights, prepared to Enfilade and defiladeenfilade the rear of the Federal line on Bolivar Heights. Jackson began a fierce artillery ... more details
had established a position on a hill that provided them with an excellent opportunity to Enfilade and defiladeenfilade the British line. Abercrombie sent the j gers to flush them out. ref Davis, p ... more details
, only to be cut down by the Enfilade and defiladeenfilade fire of Bal Bhadra s cannon along a great ... so as to enfilade the approach with showers of grapeshot . ref name Fraser, p. 15. Battle ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 for the video game concept of taking cover Cover System gaming Image DutchGapb.jpg thumb Two soldiers take cover, 1864 one flattens himself against the wall while the other crouches behind a barrel In military combat, the concept of cover refers to anything which is capable of physically protecting an individual from enemy fire. This differentiates it from the similar concept of concealment , in that an object or area of concealment only affords the benefit of stealth, not actual protection from small arms fire or artillery artillery fragments . An example of cover vs. concealment would be sandbags vs. tall grass. Uniform In some military services especially in the United States , a uniform hat is sometimes referred to officially as a cover, as in Soldier, remove your cover or You re not in uniform without your cover. It is a convention in the US Army that an armed soldier must wear cover while indoors to indicate that they are under arms. In gaming main Cover System gaming Many First person shooter first and third person shooter video games encourage the player to utilize cover. This gameplay mechanic is often referred to as a cover system . See also Defilade Hull down Category Military terminology de Deckung Schutz mil stub ... more details
Samuel E. Watson was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who led troops during the Mexican American War . Watson held the rank of brevet military brevet lieutenant colonel in the Marines during the Mexican War. He commanded a Marine battalion that reinforced the army of Winfield Scott shortly before the Battle for Mexico City . Watson had served under Winfield Scott in 1813 and was a veteran Marine. Watson and his men were attached to the 4th Division under Brig. Gen. John A. Quitman . During the critical attacks on Chapultepec Castle on September 13, 1847, Watson showed little initiative, and many of his Marines missed the crucial action, waiting in reserve in a defilade for attack orders that never came. Shortly after the fall of Mexico City to the Americans, Watson died of natural causes. References Alexander, Joseph H. and Horan, Don, The Battle History of the Marines A Fellowship of Valor. HarperPerennial, 1999. ISBN 0 06 018266 0. Albert Nofi Nofi, Albert A. , The Marine Corps Book of Lists A Definitive Compendium of Marine Corps Facts, Feats, and Traditions. Da Capo Press, 2001. ISBN 0 938289 89 6. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Watson, Samuel E. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American military commander DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Watson, Samuel E. Category American military personnel of the Mexican American War Category Year of death missing ... more details
s men appeared. The Union forces flanked Pyron s men again and punished them with Enfilade and defiladeenfilade fire. Pyron ordered another retreat, but the withdrawal of the artillery caused the Confederates ... more details
Image Arab Dining.jpg thumb right 300px The Arabian Hall with one of the Tsar s four Ethiopians Image Sdining roomWinter Pal.jpg thumb right 100px Location of the Arabian Room within the Winter Palace The Arabian Hall , sometimes known as the Blackamoor Hall or the Arabian Dining Room, is one of the semi private rooms of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg . In the Tsar ist era, it was the room from which imperial processions through the state room s began. The double doors ref The doors in the wall on the right in the watercolor, largely hidden by the flanking columns, opened into the enfilade. ref were designed to be on a straight axis through the principal state rooms and ultimately the Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace Jordan Staircase , forming an Enfilade architecture enfilade . Thus it was here the House of Romanov Romanov family often assembled, in private, before state receptions and occasions. ref Maylunas. ref The privacy of the room was not compromised by the small private courtyard see plan from which windows, which once led to the Image Hau WinterGarden.jpg Tsaritsa s winter garden below , admitted light. Designed by Alexander Briullov following the Winter Palace fire of 1837, the room is decorated in the Neoclassicism neoclassical style fashionable in the early 19th century, known as Pompei an. A ceiling, with a low segmental barrel vault with bands of shallow coffer ing stucco ed with classical motifs, is seemingly supported by a colonnade of engaged fluted Doric order Greek Doric columns with enriched Ovolo echinus molding and no bases. ref The State Hermitage Museum. ref A Meander art Greek key fret enriches the entablature that runs without a break round the room. The only furnishings were the dining chairs of Greek klismos type, formally ranged round the walls. When the Imperial family were to dine here, dining tables would be brought in, covered and laid, then removed afterwards. ref Dining table s on massive central pedestals, left in pla ... more details
ENT or Ent or ent may refer to ENT Ltd , a former Australian media company Ent Air Force Base , a former American air force base Electrical conduit Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing ENT Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing Extreme Noise Terror , a grindcore band from the United Kingdom Elementary number theory , a branch of mathematics Ent , a fictional tree man creature in The Lord of the Rings Plant creatures Treant Treant , a fictional tree man creature in Dungeons & Dragons and many other games and literature. Enewetak , an atoll whose airport has IATA airport code ENT Ent , a prefix given to chemical compounds code .ent code , a filename extension for the Protein Data Bank file format Protein Data Bank file format Ent Federal Credit Union , a credit union based in Colorado Star Trek Enterprise , a science fiction television program Electronic Notetaking , a service primarily for deaf and hard of hearing people ent or enfilade Xanadu enfiladic structure , that is, a data structure in Project Xanadu Otolaryngology , branch of medicine and surgery for the treatment of ear, nose, throat ENT , head and neck disorders Ent band , is a experimental black metal one man band from Puerto Rico. disambig Category Initialisms cs Ent de Ent fr ENT it ENT nl Ent ja ENT ... more details
Fork Y, as its possession allowed the French to Enfilade and defiladeenfilade long stretches of the Chinese ... their artillery to enfilade the main Chinese defences, but on 28 January torrential rain halted the offensive ... more details
Infobox military person name Albert Edward Shepherd birth date 11 January 1897 death date 23 October 1966 aged 69 birth place Royston, South Yorkshire Royston , Yorkshire death place Royston placeofburial Royston Cemetery image VCAlbertEdwardShepherd.jpg caption nickname allegiance UK serviceyears rank Corporal branch Image Flag of the British Army.svg 23px British Army commands unit King s Royal Rifle Corps battles World War I awards Victoria Cross laterwork Albert Edward Shepherd Victoria Cross VC 11 January 1897 &ndash 23 October 1966 was an England English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom British and Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth forces. He was 20 years old, and a private rank private in the 12th S Battalion, King s Royal Rifle Corps , British Army during the World War I First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. Quote On 20 November 1917 at Villers Plouich , France , when his company was held up by a machine gun at point blank range, Private Shepherd volunteered to rush the gun and although ordered not to, rushed forward and threw a Mills bomb killing two gunners and capturing the gun. The company, continuing its advance, came under heavy enfilade machine gun fire and when the last officer and NCO had become casualties, Private Shepherd took command of the company, ordered the men to lie down and went back some 70 yards to get the help of a tank. He then returned to his company and led them to their last objective. Citation needed date February 2009 A formation or position is in enfilade if weapons fire can be directed along its longest axis. For instance, a trench is enfiladed if the opponent can fire down the length of the trench. A column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front or rear such that the projectiles travel the length of the column. A rank or line of advancing troops ... more details
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