Posted by RichardG on November 03, 2005 at 14:46:14 from 217.207.172.242 user RichardG.
In Reply to: Re: School Forms, was Fairy Tales .... posted by John M. Nichols on November 01, 2005 at 14:14:40:
"...they have a term for the geographic feature to be below..."
Would that be the reverse slope so beloved by the Duke of Wellington ? He always tried to station his men just behind the crest of a ridge so that the advancing enemy could not see them until they reached the brow - to be met with a withering blast of musket fire. Blucher disagreed and had his men on the forward slope because "they liked to see who they were fighting" - but in doing so provided target practice for the enemy gunners.