Definition of "reconnoissance" [reconnoissance]

• Alternative spelling of reconnaissance. (noun)

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• "The reconnoissance was a success in one way -- that is, in finding out that the enemy was at the point supposed by,"
• "'reconnoissance' in very heavy force indeed upon three points of our front at once both north and south of the James river; so that it may be very properly considered as three reconnoissances in force; made with a view of feeling, as it were, LEE'S position; and the object of the three reconnoissances having been fully attained -- that is, LEE having been felt -- they retired."
• "In the remainder of the text, obvious printer errors have been corrected, but archaic spellings (e.g., "reconnoissance" for"