Infantry soldiers fight on foot with rifles, machine guns, grenades, and mortars. Artillery uses large guns to shoot explosive shells over long distances. A casualty is a military member unable to serve due to death, injury, sickness or capture. An armistice temporarily halts fighting to discuss peace terms.

1. Front
A line of battle

2. Infantry
Soldiers of military units that fight on foot. In
modern times, they typically have rifles, machine
guns, grenades, mortars etc. as weapons

3. Mortar
A short cannon for throwing shells at high angles

4. Shells
Used in cannons, they are filled with an explosive
that explodes in flight or on impact

5. Artillery
Large guns, stationary or mobile, used to shoot
shells over a long distance

6. Casualty
A member of the military who can no longer serve
due to death, wounds, sickness, capture or
because his or her whereabouts are unknown.

7. Armaments
The arms and equipment that a military unit is
supplied.

8. Blockade
To stop people or supplies from entering or
leaving a a port, harbor or a city, especially in
times of war.

9. Offensive
Relating to, or designed for an attack

10. Abdicate
To give up a power, typically when a monarch
voluntarily gives up the throne

11. Armistice
An agreement between two groups to temporarily stop fighting in
order to discuss the terms for peace