Paves Sades

Fr. large portable hurdles, behind which the archers and bowmen were formerly posted. According to Froi art, these hurdles were used long before the reign of Philip August us, king of France. Father Daniel, the Jesuit, in his His to ire de la Milice Francoise, describes them as bearing the figure of a shield; but the chevalier Folard, in his Comment a ire sur Polybe, informs us, that they were mantlets which were disposed in parallel or oblique lines, from the camp to the nearest works belonging to the Corps de Place, behind which the soldiers and artificers, . could in safety, make a small fo e or ditch that was sufficiently deep to preserve them strait and firm. Hurdles, constructed in this manner, were used during the operations of a regular siege; but when it was found expedient to insult a place, those of le dimension were adopted. Father Daniel describes the Ret ranch ment Port at if, which was used many centuries before the days of Philip August us, under the latter head.