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51Siege engine — Replica battering ram at Château des Baux, France. A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. Some have been operated close to the fortifications, while others have… …
52Naval artillery — Men of USS Kearsarge firing a smoothbore Dahlgren gun during the Battle of Cherbourg in 1864. Naval artillery, or naval riflery, is artillery mounted on a warship for use in naval warfare. Naval artillery has historically been used to engage… …
53Apres-developpement — Après développement L après développement ou post développement est un projet de nouvelle « ère » historique dans l histoire de l Occident qui se définirait en rupture avec le concept de développement : le paradigme économiste de… …
54Après-développement — L après développement ou post développement est un projet de nouvelle « ère » historique dans l histoire de l Occident qui se définirait en rupture avec le concept de développement : le paradigme économiste de la société… …
55John Adams: The Meaning of the American Revolution — ▪ Primary Source John Adams sent the following lucid essay to Hezekiah Niles, editor of the Weekly Register, on February 13, 1818, and Niles praised it three weeks later. Those who delight to trace the early dawnings of the American… …
56Artillery — By the start of the WARS OF THE ROSES in the late 1450s, artillery had been in use in northern Europe for over a century, and most civil war armies included at least a small artillery force. The pace of advancement in European gun… …
57abolish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. annul, cancel, abrogate; exterminate, wipe out. See nullification, destruction. Ant., establish, reinstate. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. suppress, eradicate, terminate, exterminate, obliterate, do away… …
58Alamo, Battle of — (1836) The most storied battle in the Texan War of Independence, in which 189 and perhaps 250 men led by David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Travis held off Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s vastly superior force of 2,000… …
59abolish — v. a. 1. Abrogate, annul, disannul, repeal, rescind, revoke, cancel, nullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, set aside, make void. 2. Destroy, overthrow, subvert, obliterate, extirpate, eradicate, annihilate, extinguish, suppress, do away, put an end …
60abolish — v 1. annul, nullify, disannul, disestablish, declare null and void, make void, quash; repeal, revoke, retract, rescind, abrogate; reverse, countermand, cancel, Law. nol pros; invalidate, vacate, vitiate; do away with, cut out, remove, put an end… …
