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socials 9 chapter 4
final exam definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Regiment of foot | in the army, about 600 foot soldiers commanded by a colonel |
| Wellington | duke of wellington, he leader of the british army |
| cavarly | combat troops on horses |
| lancers | cavalry troops armed with long lances |
| dragoons | soliders armed with short muskets, or firearms |
| hussars | soldiers on horseback armed with sabres and pistols |
| grenadiers | soliders who throw grenades |
| rise | an area of rising ground |
| infantry | the foot soldiers in an army |
| volley | round of shots |
| bayonets | in Napoleon's time, bayonets were long and wide, with a triangular blade. they could result in fatal wounds because the bayonets were usally dirty. Most soldiers feared a bayonet charge more than gunfire. |
| breastplates | peice of armour for the chest |
| square | a square-shaped formation |
| shako | a stiff military hat in teh shape of a tube, usallay with a plum |
| grapeshot | a cluster of small iron balls fired from a cannon |
| flogging offence | one of the many offences for which a soldier could be whipped. some soldier had to endure over one hundred lashes for relitivley minor offences. |
| scavangers | people who come to a battlefeild to steal the belongings of the dead and wounded. |
| corrupt | dishonest and greedy |
| minor nobility | not the highest- ranking nobles |
| formidable | impressive |
| phenomenal | remarkable, out of the ordinary. |
| republic | a country in hich the power rests which citizens entitled to vote |
| spoils | the things soldiers steal from people they have conquered |
| civil law | the law that relates to a person's rights and liberties (aas opposed to criminal law ) |
| tariff | a tax |
| ancien regime | the ' old refgime,' in other words, france before the revolution |
| etiqutte | proper manners |
| chamberlain | an official in the court of a ruler |
| censorship | the act of preventing certain publications or pictures (including television and movies) from reaching the public |
| memo | an official note or report that communicates information, usallay in a business setting |
| nationalisim | the beleif that one's own country is the best country |
| guerilla warfare | warfarethat is loosely organized, including volunteer soilders, surprise raids, etc... |
| patriotism | pride in one's country |
| tsar | the russain monarch before the russain revolution of 1917 |
| to route | to force a army to run widly from the enemy, as a opposed to retreating, which is a careful, well- disiplined military manouver. |
| diplomat | a repersenitive of goverment who wors with other goverments for the good of his or her country |
| viscount | a title of nobility |
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