génie, enghieer co7'ps

5. contrescarpe, coiinter-scarp, the sloping wall on the outside of a fortification.

6. on crut . . . brèche, they thought that they had only to make a simple b^-each.

7. ancien kvax^ki y former emigrant; an émigré usually means one who had left France at the beginning of the Révolution, because he did not believe in its principles.