1. Which word, first known to be used in the 15th century, means “military operations between enemies”?

2. What is the name of “one engaged in military service and especially in the army”?

3. Which word, from an obsolete French dialect word, means “a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces”?

4. Taken into written English from French, which word describes “a group of soldiers”?

5. Which is a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons?

6. Which is a principal subdivision of a military company, battery, or troop?

7. Deriving from German, which is “a unit of persons or vehicles employed for reconnaissance, security, or combat”?

8. Deriving from French and Italian, which word describes “soldiers trained, armed, and equipped to fight on foot”?

9. Which is “a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter”?

10. Which word, first recorded in English in 1737, describes “a bar at a military post or camp”?

11. Which is an area for temporary or semipermanent sheltering of troops?

12. Which architectural structure was devised so soldiers could be protected from their enemies while discharging arrows and other missiles?

13. From Middle English, which describes “one of a class of armed services personnel serving on shipboard or in close association with a naval force”?

14. From a Dutch word literally meaning “permission,” which is “a leave of absence granted to a governmental or institutional employee (such as a soldier or civil servant)”?

15. Referencing the king of Epirus’s heavy losses sustained while defeating the Romans, which word describes something, often a victory in battle, “achieved at excessive cost”?

16. From Medieval Latin, which word means “to surrender often after negotiation of terms”?