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Title: Cartouch (1858)
Description: Article written by Engels for The New American Cyclopaedia on the cartouch, an old military term for case or grape shot and the infantry cartridge-box.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1858-01-21
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1858%20Cartouch
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*Written by Friedrich Engels not later than 21 January 1858 and published unsigned in* The New American Cyclopaedia *(New York, D. Appleton), vol. IV (1858), p. 502; attributed to Engels by the MEGA² (I/16), whose text ends with the cartridge-box: the meaning in architecture and sculpture that follows in the Cyclopaedia is not included. Text from the printed Cyclopaedia (copy digitized by Google, Internet Archive, newamericancycl19danagoog). [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1858%20Cartouch)*

CARTOUCH, (Fr. *cartouche*), in old military works, used sometimes as synonymous with case or grape shot. It is also now and then used to designate the cartridge-box of the infantry soldier.