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Military Glossary

The document defines various military terms related to warfare, weapons, ranks, and activities. Terms include aggression, belligerents, casualties, convoy, contraband, espionage, evacuate, embargo, mobilize, invade, neutral, and more.

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Military Glossary

The document defines various military terms related to warfare, weapons, ranks, and activities. Terms include aggression, belligerents, casualties, convoy, contraband, espionage, evacuate, embargo, mobilize, invade, neutral, and more.

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MILITARY GLOSSARY

Aggression…An unprovoked attack by an in the morning


enemy
• Arsenal…A place where naval or military
• Belligerents…Nations carrying on warfare weapons are made or stored

• Conscriptions…Compulsory enrolment as • Parachute…An apparatus which opens like


soldiers and sailors an umbrella to enable a person to drop safely
from an aircraft
• Casualties…The killed or wounded in battle
• Volley…A shower of bullets
• Convoy…A number of ships traveling
together under escort for the sake of safety • Salvo…The firing of many guns at the same
time to mark an occasion
• Contraband…Smuggling of goods and
engaging in prohibited traffic • Cavalry…Horse-soldiers

• Espionage…the act or the practice of spying • Infantry…Foot-soldiers

• Evacuate…To remove from one place to • Fusillade…A number of fire arms


another to avoid the destruction of war discharged continuously

• Embargo…An order prohibiting the ships to • Reconnoiter…To make an examination of


leave the ports enemy territory

• Mobilize…to make troops and ships for war • Armistice…An agreement to stop fighting
services
• Capitulate…To surrender to an enemy on
• Invade…To enter another country as an agreed terms
enemy
• Annihilate…To reduce to nothing
• Neutral…Taking neither side in a struggle
• Amnesty…A general pardon of offenders
• Alien…An illegal foreigner in a country
• Battalion…the main division of an army
• Intern…To keep citizens in confinement
• Besiege…To surround a place with the
• Ammunition…Shells, bombs and other intention of capturing it
destructive items
• Recruit…A soldier recently enlisted for
• Ordnance…heavy guns and army store- services
items
• Leave…A soldier’s holiday
• Bayonet…A knife fixed on to the end of a
gun • Furlough… A soldier’s holiday

• Parole…A promise given by the prisoner if


given a temporary release

• Puttees…Long cloths bound round the legs


of soldiers from ankle to knee

• Reveille…Music for awakening the soldiers

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