point d'appui

Noun

 * 1)  A given point or body upon which troops are formed, or by which they are marched in line or column.
 * 2) * 1795, Rules and Regulations for the Cavalry, Adjutant General's Office, page 364,
 * Marched from the left, and to deployer to the left.—In which caſe the right squadron moves ſtreight forward to the point d'appui marked by the Quarter Maſter, &c. &c.
 * 1)  An advantageous defensive support; a foothold.
 * 2) * 1989, Daniel Berthold-Bond, Hegel's Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History,, page 40,
 * Its intention and its method is to "stand back from natural objects, leaving them as they are and adjusting ourselves to them," and its point d'appui and point de depart is sense experience (PhN §246 Zusatz).
 * Its intention and its method is to "stand back from natural objects, leaving them as they are and adjusting ourselves to them," and its point d'appui and point de depart is sense experience (PhN §246 Zusatz).