Part 156
Labarum.
LORD and BAINES’S horse-litter.
Kris.
French litière unfolded.
British army mule-litter attached to its pack-saddle.
British Crimean cacolet. [After WEIR.]
Litter of poles and raw-hide.]
Splint of willow-twigs united by buckskin thongs.
Army regulation two-horse-litter. [From a sample in the Army Medical Museum.]
Two-horse litter of the XVI century.
_Rear Elevation_ _Section_ ROPE MANTLET.
Litter.
Gun Mantelet.
Lances.
Mantelet ancien.
Môle.
Martels-de-fer.
Mattock.
Minie-ball.
Manipule.
_m_, _m_ Merlons.
Machicolation.
Morion.
Martello Tower. (U. S. 1780.)
Maiden.
Mangonneau.
Masses d’armes.]
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