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Página 8 - ... the event probable. Expectation, of life, is a term used to express the number of years, which, according to the experience of bills of mortality, persons at any age may be expected to live.
Página 5 - ESCALA'DE, in the military art, a furious attack made upon a rampart, or scaling the walls of a fortification, by filling up the ditches with bundles of faggots, called fascines, and entering by ladders; without proceeding in form, breaking ground, or carrying on regular works to secure the men — a mode of attack much adopted in the late wars, but generally accompanied with great slaughter.