Enfants Perdus

Forlorn hope: in military history, the soldiers detached from several regiments, or otherwise appointed, to give the first onset in battle, or in an attack upon the counterscarp, or the breech of a place besieged. [French] J?nneld Breech-loading Revolver.— A revolver differing from the patterns usually met with in having a rebounding Iocs, '202 the empty cartridge-cases. ' and in its method of extracting Enfield Rifle. — The arm, with recent modification, used in the British army. is e entially that Instead ' of 'the Springfield and The Mauser,magazine but holds six cartridges of five. It has a 26-inch barrel instead of 24, the length of the Springfield, and is 46 inches over all against 43% for the Springfield. The rifle, without the bayonet, weighs 10 pounds complete. See also Lee-Enfield Rifle.