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The F2 Tear Gas Grenade is a French CS gas grenade that emits a cloud of orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile gas for btween 10 and 50 seconds. The E2 can be hand thrown or propelled from a rifle fitted with a suitable adaptor.
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An earthwork is a military fortification formed chiefly of earth. They were cheaper and easier to repair than stone defences and also carried less risk of injury to the defenders from broken stone.
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The East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) was a British infantry regiment descended from the 3rd Regiment of Foot who in turn had been the Holland Regiment organised in 1572 by the London Guilds to aid the Dutch against Spain. They were known as 'The Buffs' because of the buff-leather coats they once wore. They received their title of
East Kent Regiment in 1782.
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The East Lancashire Regiment was a British infantry regiment formed of the 30th Regiment of Foot and the 59th Regiment of Foot.
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The East Surrey Regiment was a British army unit formed in 1825 from the Huntingdonshire Regiment (31st Regiment of Foot) and the 70th Regiment of Foot.
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The East Yorkshire Regiment was a British infantry regiment raised in 1685 as the 15th Regiment of Foot.
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The ECAN F17 Mod 2 is a French wire-guided torpedo with active/passive homing to a range of 20 km. It travels at a speed of 40 knots and carries a 250 kg warhead to an effective depth of 600 metres.
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An echelon is the position of an army when its different positions are somewhat in the form of steps, or with one division more advanced than another, being parallel and none of them in line.
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The ECAN L5 Mod 3 is a French dual purpose torpedo. It has active/passive homing to a range of 17 km and travels at 35 knots. The torpedo carries a 150 kg warhead and is effective to a depth of 550 metres.
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Ecrasite is an explosive impervious to damp, shock or fire. It was invented by Siersch and Kubin in 1889.
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The egg grenade was a simple type of time fuse hand grenade largely used by the British forces during the early part of the Great War. The egg grenade consisted of an egg-shaped cast-iron body filled with ammonal or a similar ammonium nitrate explosive fitted with a friction composition fuse linked to a detonator.
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The Eickhorn ACK is a German combat knife developed during the 1980s for the German army. It has a 6 5/8 inch Bowie-type clip point blade of carbon steel with a black chemical finish and a bevel-ground edge, the back edge of the blade is saw toothed. A hole is provided in the blade to allow attachment of the scabbard to form a scissor type wire cutter.
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The Eickhorn USM is a German bayonet based on the M7 design and supplied to various NATO countries. It comprises a 6 5/8 inch long spear point parallel-sided dagger blade and electrically insulated handle and scabbard.
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In firearms, the ejector is the device which throws the empty cartridge case clear from the weapon after firing.
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The Ek warrior is a no-frills, functional American fighting knife developed as a modern version of the commando knife developed by John Ek during the Second World War. The Ek Warrior has a 6 5/8 inch long, spear pointed, waisted blade in the Bowie shape, made of high carbon stainless steel with a sandblasted non-reflective finish. The tang extends beyond the grips to provide a round-ended pommel for smashing an adversary's skull with.
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Embrasures are the spaces or openings between two merlons (solid portions) of a battlement, and openings in walls through which guns and cannons may be fired. Embrasures open wider on the defender's side to allow a wider field of fire, and to the attacker present a narrow opening. The classic castle 'arrow slit' is a typical example of an embrasure.
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In fortifications an enceinte is the line of works which forms the main enclosure of a fortress or place. The term is also applied to the area within this line.
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Enfilade is military firing directed along the length of the enemy's line or trench, instead of across it. It is particularly destructive, since each shot is potentially effective over a greater length of its flight.
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In fortifications an envelope is a work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It was sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
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The Envoys' Plot was a conspiracy of western politicians and secret agents to overthrow the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in the summer of 1918. The plot was instigated by Robert Lockhart and contributed to by Sidney Reilly of the British MIIC. The plot was quickly discovered, and taken over by the Cheka as a trap for western conspirators. In August 1918 Yan Buikis, a Cheka officer posing as an anti-Bolshevik conspirator under the name of Shmidkhen succeeded in persuading Lockhart, Reilly and the French consul-general that Colonel Eduard Berzin, commander of a Latvian regiment in the Kremlin (in fact a Cheka agent provocateur) was ready to lead an anti-Bolshevik uprising. Reilly supplied 1200000 roubles to finance the coup which were promptly passed to the Cheka. The operation was wound up by the Cheka in September following the assassination attempt on Lenin and the assassination of the head of the Petrograd Cheka.
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In fortifications an epaule is the shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
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In fortifications an epaulement is a side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.
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An Epee-de-Combat is a pointed, dull-edged sword with a blade roughly one metre long used in duelling and fencing. It developed from the 18th century small-sword.
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The Equestrian Order was an order of Knights in ancient Rome. The equites or knights originally formed the cavalry of the army. They are said by Livy to have been instituted by Romulus, who selected 300 of them from the three principal tribes. About the time of the Gracchi (123 BC) the equites became a distinct order in the state, and the judges and the farmers of the revenue were selected from their ranks. They held their position in virtue of a certain property qualification, and towards the end of the republic they possessed much influence in. the state. They had particular seats assigned to them in the circus and theatre, and the insignia of their rank, in addition to a horse, were a gold ring and a robe with a narrow purple border. Under the later emperors the order disappeared from the stage of political life.
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The Essex Regiment was a former British army regiment formed from the 44th Regiment of Foot raised in 1741 and the 56th Regiment of Foot raised in 1745. Following their part in the Peninsular War the regiment earned the nickname of the 'little fighting fours'. The Essex Regiment was also at Waterloo and many other battles. In 1958 were amalgamated with The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (formerly the Bedfordshire Regiment) to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot).
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An estradiot was an Albanian dragoon or light-horseman, employed in the French army in the 15th and 16th centuries. They sometimes fought on foot as well as on horseback.
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Ethyldichlorarsine was a toxic gas used during the Great War by the Germans from March 1918. Short exposure to the gas causes irritation to the respiratory passages and lungs, but longer exposure can be lethal. In addition to the pulmonary effects, the arsenic component is absorbed rapidly and leads to systemic poisoning. Long exposure also burns the skin, so that the gas is a complex of lung injurant, toxic, and vesicant effects. It was used in mixtures with the equally toxic dichlormethyl ether in artillery shells as part of bombardments and support for infantry attacks.
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The Eurometaal H6 Hand Grenade is a Dutch defensive or fragmentation hand grenade. The Eurometaal H6 Hand Grenade comprises an egg-shaped plastic body lined with steel balls and packed with a 140 gram high-explosive charge. The Eurometaal H6 Hand Grenade is fitted with a 3.5 second delay fuse and has a lethal range of five meters, with a safe zone twenty metres from the point of detonation.
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Excalibur was the sword of King Arthur, who received it from the Lady of the Lake. At Arthur's death, Bedivere cast it into a lake, where it was caught by a mysterious hand.
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During the Second World War, Special Operations Executives and resistance fighters in occupied Europe filled dead rats with explosive and left them in railway train coal stores in the hope that they would be thrown into the furnace along with the coal and explode, causing disruption to the occupying forces railway communications.
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In firearms, the extractor is the mechanical device which withdraws the fired cartridge case from the chamber. After the extractor has pulled the cartridge case from the chamber, the ejector throws the cartridge case clear.
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