10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEQUERWISE»
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chequerwise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Britannic magazine; or entertaining repository of heroic ...
... that division offers a front mucll inserior to his own. The two other or side
divisions standing on chequerwise on the fame tack as the Line of battle, and
formed o.u the opposite close-hauled line. , On this supposition, if the divisions of
the ...
2
Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
... division CD which must combat to windward. ahead, or divide the hostile
division AB, which ia 119. That we may form some notion of the ad- running
chequerwise on .the opposite tack, vantages which our author expects from
drawing ...
3
The Army and Navy of America ... from the Period of the ...
run alongside of them ; double their rear-guard, and put it between two fires, if
those hostile ships are following in the wake of each other; divide it, if they bear
away chequerwise; or gain to windward, and put between two fires the wise; ...
4
Instruction in fortification, military engineering, and ...
They are usually placed in three rows, arranged ' * ' chequerwise, with central
intervals of 10 or 11 feet, the excavated earth being heaped up on the space
between them. One man can construct two per day in easy soil. The shallow pits
are 3 ...
Woolwich roy. military acad,
1871
5
The Army and Navy of America
run alongside of them; double their rear-guard, and put it between two fires, if
those hostile ships are following in the wake of each other ; divide it, if they bear
away chequerwise ; or gain to windward, and put between two fires the enemy's ...
K. Neff Jacob K. Neff, Jacob Neff,
2009
6
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
The two lines c d,~ ef, will represent the two other divisions standing on
chequerwise on the same tack as the line of battle, and formed on the opposite
close-hauled line. On this supposition, if the divisions AB, EF, of the hostile fleet,
which ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1816
7
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
e f, will represent the two other divisions standing on chequerwise on the same
tack as the line of battle, and formed on the opposite close-hauled line. On this
supposition, if the divisions AB, EF, of the hostile fleet, which lave it not in their ...
8
Encyclopædia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...
The two lines c a', e f, will represent the two other divisions standing on
chequerwise on the same tack as the line of battle, and sormed on the opposite
close-hauled line. On this supposition, if the divisions AB, EF, of the hostile fleet,
which ...
Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig,
1798
9
The History of Ancient Greece
... discovery is confirmed by ancient monuments. On several pieces of sculpture,
particularly at Rome, he found the figures of war-galleys, or parts of them, with the
oars represented as coming down from oar-holes disposed chequerwise.
10
Light cavalry out-posts, tr. by major Lonsdale, A. Hale and ...
For Wire entanglements, stout stakes are driven into the ground about 7 ft. apart,
in three or more rows arranged chequerwise, and their heads connected by
strong wires crossing diagonally, twisted round the heads of the stakes about 18
ins.
Antoine Fortuné de Brack,
1876