CAMISARDS

In French History, the Protestant in sur In the Cevennes, after the revocation of the edict of -. were so called, from having worn their shirts over by way of disguise on the occasion of some irnal attacks. Their principal leader, Cavalier, suci capitulation in their favour with the Kr! ibsequently entered the English service, and at his death was governor of Jei iJAMLET. A stuff or cloth, consisting of a mixture of wool and silk:, or of wool and camel's hair. CAMOEVK (Derivation unknown) A Roman apCAMP. In the an Military, a word of doubtful etymolojnifying the station of an army, with its artillery, bagres, when "it has taken the field for i iry 'i cam] i Involves that l»f Ihe military art in all ages and in all countries; and in tc the skill displayed by any nation in the scitinv an accurate estimate be i other departments of military r. ir-il.i'iii'iiii.ans appear to have been the first people in profane history who directed their attention to this subject Their camps, whenever it was practicable, of a circular form, which was said to po e the ad- • from the centre, where Ihe general with the of the troops lay. help could soonest be afforded to my. The other states of and Carthage borrowed the grand printing and tracing their camps from the Lacee.commo dated the form, the arrangement, and disposition of the same to the nature and iund which they intended to occupy, it Romans that the art of cast rum elation first tnatic regularity. The form of the Roiriably quadrangular; it was surrounded olar intrenchments, and was so admirably arranged and in dividual knew exactly the. and the part to which intttention should be directed in the event of alarm. It 1 our limits to give an account of the construction of the Roman camps, and of the arrangement of the troops in them. The reader will find ample details and comments upon this subject in Ihe works of Polybius and is. an I in Oeneral Roy's Military Antiquities of the i Cyctopadia contains an able account of the different systems of castrametation. Camp. la, a heap of turnips, potatoes, or other roots, laid up fer preserving through the winter; in tees called a pie, and in others a bury. [s. 201]