PLACE, in war, a general name for all kinds of fortresses. tresses where a party may defend themselves. Thus,

1. A strong or fortified place is one flanked, and covered with bastions.

2. A regular place, one whose angles, sides, bastions, and other parts, are equal; and this is usually denominated from the number of its angles, as a pentagon, hexagon, &c.

3. Irregular place is one whose sides and angles are unequal.

4. Place of arms is a strong city or town pitched upon for the chief magazine of an army; or, in a city or garrison, it is a large open spot of ground, usually near the centre of the place where the grand guard is commonly kept, and the garrison holds its rendezvous at reviews, and in cases of alarm to receive orders from the governor.

5. Places of arms of an attack, in a siege, is a spacious place covered from the enemy by a parapet or escarpment, where the soldiers are posted ready to sustain those at work in the trenches against the soldiers of the garrison.

6. Place of arms particular, in a garrison, a place near every bastion, where the soldiers sent from the grand place to the quarters assigned them relieve those that are either upon the guard or in sight.

7. Place of arms without, is a place allowed to the covert way for the planting of cannon, to oblige those who advance in their approaches to retire.

8. Place of arms in a camp, a large place at the head of the camp for the army to be ranged in and drawn up in battalia. There is also a place for each particular body, troop, or company, to assemble in.

Common-Place. See Common-Place.