Armistice
the term given to a truce or suspension of hostilities between two armies or nations at war, by mutual consent. It sometimes occurs owing to the exhaustion of both parties; at other times it is had recourse to with a view to arrange terms of peace. It may be either general or partial; the former, bewere the body from wounds or to annoy the enemy. Hence it was divided into two kinds, defensive and offensive. A comfastened. This was plete suit of defensive armor anciently consisted of a casque or helm, a gorget, the spurs kinds, defensive and offensive. A com- plete suit of defensive armor anciently consisted of a casque or helm, a gorget, cuirass, gauntlets, tasses, brassets, cuishes and covers for the legs, to which called armor cap-a-pie, and was worn by cavaliers and men-at-arms. The inmor which covered the head and neck. fantry had only part of it, viz., a pot or cavaliers and men-at-arms. The in- fantry had only part of it, viz., a pot or them made light. The horses had ar- Of all this equipment of war scarcely anything is now retained except, in a ARMORED TRAIN few cases, the cuirass. One of the few picturesque features of the World War was the revival of the use of armor in other protective devices of metal.
ARMORED TRAIN a locomotive with boiler plate and equipped cars, similarly protected, with field guns and put them to effective practical use. But the germ of the idea goes back further than 1882. When the Germans closed their vise-like grip upon Paris, the French made frequent sorties from the city, and in many of these attacks the guns were mounted on railroad cars protected at vital points by 외 ১০০ 55000 0000 8 . 0000000 ITALIAN ARMOR, 1460 The word is applied to the metal protection given to ships of war, usually the employment of steel helmets, and consisting of super-carbonized steel or nickel steel. See ARMOR PLATES.