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The United States in Account Current Dr. (for bounties and premiums) with -----+------------------------+--------+------ Date.| |Dolls.|Cts. -----+ +--------+------ |For bounties and | | |premiums allowed for | | |recruits, per within | | |account, | | | | | |For advances made to the| | |following officers, on | | |account of bounties and | | |premiums to recruits, | | |for which advances the | | |said officers are | | |accountable, viz. | | | | | |To per receipt No. | |

Cr. +-----+---------------------+--------+------ |Date.| |Dolls.|Cts. +-----+ +--------+------ | | By | | | |For cash received of | | | |him on account of | | | |bounties and | | | |premiums to recruits,| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, upon my word and honor, as an officer and a gentleman, that this recruiting account exhibits a faithful, accurate, and true statement of all monies received and paid away by me, on account of bounties and premiums to recruits, not heretofore accounted for; and that the balance of _____ dollars, __ cents, stated in the above account current, is due from ______ to _______

Given at _______________ in the state of ______________ this ________ day of ________ 18_

RECRUIT-horses, are the horses brought up for completing the regiments of horse, and dragoons, &c.

RECTANGLE, Fr. rectangle.

RECTANGLE, RECTANGULAR, See ANGLE.

RECTILIGNE, Fr. rectilinear, or right lined.

RECTILINEAR, RECTILINEOUS, after the manner, or consisting of right lines.

RECUIT, Fr. A term used its the French foundaries of artillery, signifying the annealing or hardening of a cannon-mould.

RECUL du canon, Fr. The recoil of a piece of ordnance. See RECOIL.

RECULADE, Fr. The act of recoiling or falling back.

RECULER, Fr. To fall back. This expression is used by the French in a figurative sense, viz.

RECULER pour mieux sauter, Fr. To fall back or retreat, in order to return and advance with more energy.

RED hot shot, shot made red hot, and in that state thrown out of cannon, against the vessels or magazines of an enemy.

REDCOAT, a familiar term for a British soldier.

REDANS, in field fortification, are a kind of indented works, lines, or faces, forming sallying and re-entering angles, flanking one another; generally constructed on the sides of a river which runs through a garrison town. They were used before bastions were invented, and are by some thought preferable to them. They are likewise called Ouvrages à scie, from their resemblance to a saw.

REDDITION d’une place, Fr. The surrender of a besieged place.

REDIGER, Fr. To draw out.

REDIGER des memoires, Fr. To draw out memorials.

REDINTEGRATION, the act of restoring any single substance, from a damaged mixed body, to its former nature and properties. Thus col. Congreve, of the British artillery, by the redintegration of nitre from damaged gunpowder, has effected a vast saving in that article.

REDOUBT, (Redoute, Fr.) in fortification, a square work raised without the glacis of the place, about musquet shot from the town; having loop-holes for the small arms to fire through, and surrounded by a ditch. Sometimes they are of earth, having only a defence in front, surrounded by a parapet and ditch. Both the one and the other serve for detached guards to interrupt the enemy’s works; and are sometimes made on the angles of the trenches for covering the workmen against the sallies of the garrison. The length of their sides may be about 20 toises; their parapets must have two or three banquettes, and be about nine or ten feet thick. They are sometimes (in a siege) called places of arms.

REDOUBT, is also the name of a small work made in a ravelin, of various forms. See FORTIFICATION.

REDOUBT, castle or donjon, a place more particularly intrenched, and separated from the rest of a ditch. There is generally in each of them a high position, from whence the country round the place may be discovered.

Detached REDOUBT, is a work made at some distance from the covert-way, much in the same manner as a ravelin with flanks. See ARROW.