Hurdles,clayes,Thomas Simes,fence-like,hurdle

Title: Hurdles, or clayes, made of branches or twigs, closely nterwoven, are about five or six feet long, and three, or three and a half broad
Related Names:
Simes, Thomas, fl. 1757-1780.
Date Created/Published: [1776]
Summary: Print shows the fence-like construction of a hurdle.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption continues: Their use is to cover traverses, lodgements, caponeers, coffers, &c. and are covered over with earth, to secure them from the enemy's artificial fireworks or stones which might be thrown upon them; they are also frequently used to cover marshy ground, or pass a fosse.
Illus. in: A new military, historical, and explanatory dictionary ... / Thomas Simes. Philadelphia : Sold by Humphreys, Bell, and Aitken, 1776.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 910.
Subjects:
Military art & science--1770-1780.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Book illustrations--1770-1780.
Woodcuts--1770-1780.
Bookmark /2004673523/
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