The enterprise was abandoned. Farther to the left, a portion of the 6th Corps carried the first line of the Confederate entrenchments, and captured 900 prisoners and several guns. Then the first day's real battle at Spotsylvania Courthouse was ended.
Base (mathematics) In mathematics, a base or radix is the number of different digits or combination of digits and letters that a system of counting uses to represent numbers. For example, the most common base used today is the decimal system. Because dec means 10, it uses the 10 digits from 0 to 9.
A riffle is an area of fast moving, churning water. A run is an area of smoothly moving water. A pool is an area of stagnant water. Each habitat type supports different types of aquatic life, so a stream with a greater diversity of habitat types will generally support a greater diversity of organisms.