Every point from which rifle or artillery fire could be brought to bear on the enemy was occupied, and at noon a rush of Ghurkhas and Borderers was made across the ridge.
A correspondent tells us that the Scottish Borderers never lost heart during the awful bombardment to which they were subjected.
This French diversion enabled trawlers to land 700 men of the 2nd South Wales Borderers at Beach S.
It's dogged as does it," according to the old saying, and never were men more dogged than the King's Own Scottish Borderers during that fearful ordeal.
At seven o'clock on the morning of 17th April, when the 1st Royal West Kents and the 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers were waiting with fixed bayonets, the mines under the hillock were exploded.
By seven o'clock on the morning of the 26th the King's Own Scottish Borderers have lost half their number, including their gallant colonel.
The Borderers had been obliged to fall back from the trench on the outer lip of the crater to a trench on its near side, so that the chasm lay between them and the Germans.
Tartarians and other kings borderers vnto them, did trouble and inuade them, doing great damage and harme.
Late in the evening, at the autumnal season of a year over which passing centuries have thrown a darkening veil, the weary and harassed Borderers of Borrowdale were summoned together by the sound of the slogan, or war-cry of their band.
But the surprise here was so complete, that the Borderers had in fact nothing to do but to keep the possession, thus obtained in so easy and at the same time so gallant a style.
The time was now arrived when the support of Sir Ringan Redhough and his borderers was become absolutely necessary.
Doubtless her thoughts ran on those dim early days, when the Indians lurked in the canebrake and only the great borderers stood between the settlers and sure death.
He's descended straight from one of the greatest Indian fighters, borderers and heroes the country down there ever knew, Henry Ware, who afterwards became one of the early governors of the State.
The borderers were cottagers who also worked for their lord and held smaller holdings, from one to ten acres.
There are six villeins, four borderers with three ploughs.
The most infallible specific, however, is a bulb known to all the borderers by the name of "Seneca root.
Another dance, which excited most boisterous mirth, was led by a chief who is called by the borderers Peter the Gambler.
The Indians become more easily deluded by the borderers than by others, because the borderers know that they never esteem any one to be substantial who does not keep a shop.
In the meantime, probably without knowledge of Cresap's intent, Greathouse had collected a party of 32 borderers to accomplish the same end.
The South Wales Borderers have a highly-prized distinction, that of bearing a silver wreath of immortelles fastened to their King's colour, in commemoration of the devoted bravery of the regiment in the Zulu War.
Their object thus accomplished, and their imprisoned comrades restored to them, the borderers dispersed for the present to their homes.
The Pennsylvania borderers were, as we have seen, chiefly the descendants of Presbyterian emigrants from the north of Ireland.
In high dudgeon at such an infraction of their liberties, the borderers sent messengers through the country, calling upon all good men to rise in arms.
The distress, wrath, and terror of the borderers produced results sufficiently remarkable to deserve a separate examination.
The Scottish Borderers and the 3rd Egyptian Battalion marched out independently, and took up a position in the rear of the Water Forts at 6.
Reiving was only one of the many ways in which the Borderers sought to enrich themselves at the expense of their neighbours in the opposite March.
The difficulties with which the Borderers had to contend were of a varied character.
They could command great forces, against which it was in vain, in most cases, for the Scottish Borderers to contend.
The Borderers had many faults, but certainly they cannot be charged with having had short memories!
And if Borderers have deficiencies arising out of the adverse circumstances with which they had so long to contend, they have also outstanding excellencies which have brought them well to the front in the race of life.
It is worthy of note that, for a few years before James succeeded to the throne of England, his feeling towards the Scottish Borderers had become considerably modified.
This boon was one which, for many generations, the Borderers did not enjoy.
Are not our own Borderers and Highlanders as much Borderers and Highlanders as ever they were?
Besides, the Borderersand Highlanders, themselves plunderers and thieves, would not be very active in apprehending their brother thieves, the Gipsies.
They were especially anxious for spirits, for they far surpassed even the white borderers in their crazy thirst for strong drink.
The borderers are usually as suspicious as they are independent, and their self-sufficiency and self-reliance often degenerate into mere lawlessness and defiance of all restraint.
And it is likely that if her Majesty undertake the enterprise they will rather submit themselves to her obedience than to the Spaniards, of whose cruelty both themselves and the borderers have already tasted.
He farther told me that I could not desire so much to invade Macureguarai and the rest of Guiana but that the borderers would be more vehement than I.
He also hath taken to wife one Louiana, of a strong family, which are borderers and neighbours; and myself now being old and in the hands of death am not able to travel nor to shift as when I was of younger years.
Whereas, otherwise, if I had either laid hands on the borderers or ransomed the lords, as Berreo did, or invaded the subjects of Inga, I know all had been lost for hereafter.
This movement restored theborderers all their rage and fury.
The borderersuttered an exclamation of horror and despair.
The Borderers were now nearly as troublesome as the Highlanders.
While the government was thus without a head, and the country was in confusion, two English armies invaded Scotland to punish the Borderers for the shelter which they had given to the leaders of the late rising in England.
At the news of this success six hundred Borderers from the Scottish side, who had been fighting in the service of the English Wardens, changed sides and attacked their former brothers in arms.
The war of the Austrian Succession, which began in 1742, occasioning the assembling of a British and allied army in the Netherlands, our Borderers were sent thither to reinforce the troops which had already won the bloody victory of Dettingen.
Accordingly, their offer being accepted, the embodiment of the Twenty-fifth King’s Own Borderers was the result, which in four hours attained a strength of near a thousand men.
In the sanguinary battle of Val, our Borderers bore a more prominent part with equal credit.
Advancing with the royal army to Killiecrankie, the Borderers bore a conspicuous and honourable part in the contest which ensued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borderers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
