On detached service. A squadron may be detached under a commodore or senior officer.
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Detach>>. II. Detached ·adj Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A bastion cut off by a ditch about its gorge from the body of the place, which latter is thus render...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An escarp wall, originally invented by Carnot, and revived by the Prussians, removed some distance t...
Works included in the scheme of defence of a fortress, but separated from it, and beyond the glacis....