The addition of a heavy stone roof necessitated the englobing of each alternate monolithic column by a square pier cantoned with shafts.
During this campaign Moreau commanded the army of the north, encamped in Holland; Jourdan that of the Sambre and Meuse, stationed near Cologne; and Pichegru that of the Rhine, cantoned from Mayence to Strasburg.
Lord Hood, however, had scarcely put the port in order and taken possession of the town, before General Cartaux arrived with his victorious army from Marseilles, and cantonedhimself in the surrounding villages and bastides.
I myself have found these birds in little parties in the autumn cantoned all along the Sussex-downs, wherever there were shrubs and bushes, from Chichester to Lewes; particularly in the autumn of 1770.
Let them come from whence they will, it looks very auspicious that they are cantoned along the coast in order to pass the channel when severe weather advances.
The militia troops are distributed among both the enlisted and the cantoned troops, the length of service with the colors being ninety days in time of peace.
The infantry in which all the cantoned troops serve consist of twenty-six regiments and two battalions.
The reorganized army in active service is composed of vaerfvade, or enlisted troops, and indelta, or cantoned troops, the expenses also of the latter being paid by the government.
As the main body of the British army was cantoned in Jersey, and a strong detachment occupied Rhode Island, General Washington believed that New York could not be perfectly secure.
About four thousand men were cantoned on the Delaware at Trenton, Bordentown, the White Horse, and Mount Holly; and the remaining part of the army of Jersey was distributed from that river to the Hackensack.
But if the Indian does not submit; if he will not consent to be cantoned in the reserves?
The Pawnees are cantonedin Nebraska, in the neighbourhood of the Pacific Railway, and the Yutes in the 'parks' of Colorado.
Sidenote: 2nd] Light Division was cantonedin the adjacent villages.
Merchants, sailors, slaves, artisans, Egyptian men of letters, even the discharged soldiers of the three legionscantoned in the valley of the Nile contributed to its diffusion.
Our regiment wascantoned in the surrounding villages, while nightly we mounted a captain’s picquet on a height facing a bridge, on the other side of which the French had thrown out their advanced sentry.
We did not return to Schagen after our retreat, but were cantoned in some villages in front of that town; and a few days afterwards we were moved to the right of Schagen, through Schagen-bruck, to a farm hamlet called Zaand Wyck.
I set out from Lisbon soon after, and joined my regiment, which was one of those that formed the light division, and found them cantoned in the neighbourhood of Rodrigo, that fortress having fallen some days previous to my arrival.
The Peninsula had at length been delivered by the genius of Wellington; and his army were cantoned within the territory of France ere the close of the campaign.
A violent commotion ensued; some blood was shed; but the necessity of submission was so obvious, that ere long they resumed the appearance of order, and were cantoned in quiet in the midst of the strangers.
Lauzun and his legion, as we have seen, were cantoned at Lebanon, in Connecticut.
Strong detachments were stationed at West Point and other posts near the Hudson, and the American cavalry were cantoned in the western part of Connecticut.
About the middle of January a portion of the New Jersey line, cantoned at Pompton, * followed the example of the Pennsylvania mutineers, and revolted.
Six brigades were cantoned on the east side of the Hudson and at West Point.
Mongol-Chinese documents, the Mongol garrisons cantoned near the Chinese towns are mentioned under the name of Aolu, but no explanation of the term is given.
On the western side of Afghanistan our army held Ghuznee, Candahar, and Quetta; but again the Bolan Pass lay between our forces and Upper Scinde, where a small British army was cantoned on the Indus.
In 1857 four regiments of sepoys were cantoned at Cawnpore, namely, three of infantry and one of light cavalry.
The sepoy regiments were cantoned on a rising ground, known as the Ridge, which was situated about a mile to the north of Delhi, and overlooked the whole city.
A sepoy regiment in the Bengal army was cantoned in ten rows of huts, a company of 100 sepoys in each row.
The allied infantry were cantoned generally on the Agueda and Douro--with their cavalry in the valley of the Moudego, and round Moncorbo.
Within three weeks the exchange I sought for was effected; and I was in due form gazetted to a lieutenancy in an old regiment cantoned for the winter on the Agueda.
Latterly Jung Bahadur levied a force of 6000 of them, who were cantoned at Katmandoo, where the cholera breaking out, carried off some hundreds, causing many families who dreaded conscription to flock to Dorjiling.
I announced the first intelligence of an unexpected movement which had taken place among the Prussian troops cantoned in the neighbourhood of Hamburg.
By this agreement, the Prussian troops were to be cantoned in their own territories, and remain neutral for two months; at the end of that period, if their king so determined, they should be at liberty to rejoin the French troops.
Cantoned himself in Dresden neighborhood, and sat waiting: he had never approved this War; and now, I suppose, would not want for reflections.
He then cantoned his army in the neighbourhood, and awaited the cessation of the periodical rains.
Ahmad, in the meantime, was cantoned at Anupshahr, on the frontier of the Rohilla country, where he was compelled to remain while his negotiations with Shujaa were pending.
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