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BRIDGEBUILDING BROTHERHOOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BRIDGEBUILDING BROTHERHOOD , a confraternity (Fratres Pontifices) that arose in the See also:

south of See also:

France during the latter See also:

PART

part of the 12th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and maintained hospices at the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief fords of the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

rivers, besides See also:

BUILDING

building See also:

bridges and looking after ferries. The brotherhood was recognized by See also:

Pope See also:

Clement III. in 118g. See also:

BRIDGE

BRIDGE-See also:

HEAD (Fr. tete-du-See also:

PONT (or KYLPONT), ROBERT (1524–1606)

Pont), in fortification, a See also:

WORK

work de-signed to See also:

COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover the passage of a See also:

RIVER

river by means of fortifications on one or both See also:

banks. As the See also:

PROCESS

process of moving an See also:

army over bridges is slow and complicated, it is usually necessary to secure it from hostile interruption, and the See also:

WORKS

works constituting the bridge-head must therefore be sufficiently far advanced to keep the enemy's See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery out of range of the bridges. In addition, See also:

ROOM

room is required for the troops to See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form up on the farther See also:

BANK

bank. In former days, with See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short-range weapons, a bridge-head was often little more than a See also:

SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

screen for the bridge itself, but See also:

MODERN

modern conditions have rendered necessary far greater See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of bridge defences.

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