the provisions with which a place is furnished in order for defence; or that which follows a camp for its subsistence.

MUNITION Ships, are those that have stores on board in order to supply a fleet of men of war at sea. In an engagement, all the munition ships and victuallers attending the fleet take their station in the rear of all the rest; they are not to engage in the fight, but to attend to such directions as are sent to them by the admiral.