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The main form of encircling, the "double pincer", is executed by attacks on the flanks of a battle whose mobile forces of the era, such as light infantry, cavalry, tanks, or armoured personnel carriers attempt to force a breakthrough to utilize their speed to join behind the back of the enemy force and complete the "ring" while the main enemy force is stalled by probing attacks.
It was the re-allocation of scattered strips of land into large new fields that were enclosed either by hedges, walls or fences. [21] The newly created enclosed fields were reserved for the sole use of individual owners or their tenants. [21] Inclosure. Inclosure is the statutory and legal form of the word "enclosure". Enclosure is the process. [1]
The absolute definition of archaeological enclosures has been debated over time. Some suggest that at a general level, enclosure (archaeologically) could be defined as the replacement of open-fields with privately owned-fields through walls, banks, and dividers.
Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in a full stop. It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multilingual Plane, a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks.
Enclosed religious orders, religious orders separated from the external world; Oppidum, a large fortified Iron Age settlement; Cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure"), a feature running along the walls of buildings forming a quadrangle; Close (disambiguation) Cover (disambiguation) Container (disambiguation) Receptacle (disambiguation)
An enclave is a part of the territory of a state that is enclosed within the territory of another state. To distinguish the parts of a state entirely enclosed in a single other state, they are called true enclaves. [5]: 10 A true enclave cannot be reached without passing through the territory of a single other state that surrounds it.
The tactic of encircling is called motitus, literally meaning the formation of an isolated block or "motti", but in effect meaning an entrapment or envelopment. The word means "mug" in many Finnish dialects; an alternate translation refers to a cubic meter of firewood, a relatively small area in which an encircled enemy could be "cut down" like ...
The Annunciation - Convent of San Marco, Florence. The term hortus conclusus is derived from the Vulgate Bible's Canticle of Canticles (also called the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon) 4:12, in Latin: "Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus" ("A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.") [6] This provided the shared ...