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OUBLIETTE , a See also:

French architectural See also:

TERM

term (from oublier, to to intervene was checked by the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry, and the pressure forget), used in two senses of a See also:

DUNGEON

dungeon or See also:

CELL (from Lat. cella, probably from an Indo-European kal —seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, wax, taking the original meaning to refer to the honeycomb)

cell in a See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison or on the centre and right, which were now practically surrounded, See also:

castle which could only be reached by a See also:

TRAP (0. Eng. treppe or traepee, properly a step, as that or which an animal places its foot and is caught, cf. Ger. Treppe flight of stairs)

trap-See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door from another continued even after nightfall. A few scattered See also:

units managed dungeon, and of a concealed opening or passage leading from a dungeon to the See also:

MOAT

moat or See also:

RIVER

river, into which bodies of prisoners who were to be secretly disposed of might be dropped. See also:

VIOLLET, PAUL MARIE (184o- )

Viollet le to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape, and the See also:

LEFT

left wing retreated unmolested, but at the cost of about 3000 casualties the See also:

ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

Allies inflicted a loss of 6000 killed and wounded and woo prisoners on the enemy, who were, moreover, so shaken that they never recovered their confidence to the end of the See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign. The See also:

BATTLE

battle of Oudenarde was not the greatest of See also:

Marlborough's victories, but it affords almost the best See also:

ILLUSTRATION

illustration of his military See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character. Contrary to all the rules of See also:

war then in See also:

VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue, he fought a piecemeal and unpremeditated battle, with his back to a river, and with wearied troops, and the event justified him. An See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

COMMANDER

commander would have avoided fighting altogether, but Marlborough saw beyond the material conditions and risked all on his estimate of the moral superiority of his See also:

army and of the weakness of the French leading. His conduct of the battle, once it had opened, was a See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of the " partial" victory—the destruction of a See also:

PART

part of the enemy's forces under the eyes of the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest—which was in the 17th and 18th centuries the tactician's ideal, and was sufficient to ensure him the reputation of being the best See also:

general of his See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age. But it is in virtue of having fought at all that he passes beyond the criteria of the See also:

time and becomes one of the See also:

GREAT

great captains of See also:

HISTORY

history.

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