a person wounded, maimed, or disabled for action by age.

At Chelsea and Greenwich are magnificent Hospitals, or rather colleges, built for the reception and accommodation of invalids, or foldiers and seamen worn out in the service.

We have also twenty independent companies of invalids, dispersed in the several forts and garrisons.

At Paris is a college of the same kind, called les Invalides, which is accounted one of the finest buildings in that city.