Limber
- A two-wheeled carriage used to transport the cannon and its carriage. The limber also carried an ammunition chest, tar bucket, leather or canvass water buckets, and a tarpaulin. Six horses were usually required to pull the limber and cannon.
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Loopholes
- Apertures formed in a wall or stockade, that through them a fire of musketry may be directed on the exterior ground.*
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definitions from "Military Dictionary", Col. H.L. Scott, 1861
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