castrametation

• “Mr. George Constable, filled in perhaps unconsciously from the author's own life; for he, no less than his friend, delighted in collecting relics, and in studying out the lines, prætoria, and general castrametation of the”

  English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

• “In three centuries, already some outline has been sketched, rudely adumbrating the future settlement destined for the planet, some infant castrametation has been marked out for the future encampment of nations.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843

• “Nor were our friends Folard and Jomini absent; nor eke the minute essays of a Jarry, who taught the aspiring youths of Great Britain all the arts of castrametation.”

  A Love Story

• “A space of ground large enough to accommodate perhaps thirty tents according to the Crusaders 'rules of castrametation, was partly vacant --- because, in ostentation, the knight had demanded ground to the extent of his original retinue --- partly occupied by”

  The Talisman

• “No system of castrametation ever devised by Polybius or Vauban could bear the slightest comparison with such vast fortifications, A city built on the floor of the circular cavity could be no more reached by the outside”

  All Around the Moon

• “The elder traveller, observing with pleasure the capacity of his temporary companion to understand and answer him, plunged, nothing loath, into a sea of discussion concerning urns, vases, votive, altars, Roman camps, and the rules of castrametation.”

  The Antiquary

• “Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres.”

  History of the United Netherlands, 1590-92

• “_Mémorial pour la castrametation et la fortification passagère.”

  Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.

• “Were it merely with a view to more effectual carnage, this art (however simple and gross at first) opened at length into wide scientific arts, into strategies, into tactics, into castrametation, into poliorcetics, and all the processes through which the first rude efforts of martial cunning finally connect themselves with the exquisite resources of science.”

  Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

• “For the more general uses of the legionary soldier, for marching, for castrametation, and the daily labours of the spade or mattock, a lighter build was better.”

  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

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