The whole captures since the army started out gunning will amount to not less than twelve thousand men, and probably fifty pieces of artillery.
The totalcaptures amounted to one thousand four hundred and sixty-four prisoners, and one hundred and four pieces of artillery.
The rebel forces were daily suffering attrition by captures and surrenders and minor fighting.
The Union successes on the coast were counterbalanced by German captures of frontier posts.
He made so many captures that he soon had almost a fleet under his command, and was able to pay his men with the money taken from the enemy.
The advantage of these and similar captures was that it gave the blockading fleets control of the principal harbors, and made it easier to enforce a rigid blockade.
Meanwhile, the most important battle of the war had taken place and several captures were made on the ocean.
The Constitution Capturesthe Cyane and the Levant, 325.
Isaac, his race in the Constitution, 66; captures the Guerriere, 68.
Rainbowe,~ under Captain Smith, captures and imports African slaves into Massachusetts.
A few accounts of captures here and there would make the matter less suspicious; these, however, do not occur.
B] Nebuchadnezzar captures and destroys Jerusalem; puts an end to the kingdom of Judah.
The Battalion’s captures included three officers and over 50 men, while more than sixty dead Turks were buried by us afterwards in their old trenches.
The captures by the 60th Division included two 77 mm.
I was surprised to find among his captures a number of redwings; of a couple of dozen thrushes which I bought for my own and men's eating, no less than eight were redwings, and on subsequent days he caught many more.
It was moved & agreed to strike out "all captures from an enemy.
Yet in some instances as in piracies, captures &c.
And the verdict was: "The captures of Captain Robert Surcouf of St. Malo are all declared 'good prize' and belong to him and the owners of his vessel.
Your captures are all condemned," said the Governor of the island, a few days after his triumphant arrival.
Viscount Parana "was of opinion that no responsibility for captures rested on the officers who had made them, they acting under the orders of the Government, which took the responsibility on itself.
In the course of these important services, various captures were made and sent for adjudication to Rio de Janeiro, under the authority of His Imperial Majesty's orders to make war on the subjects and property of Portugal.
It has two pairs of antennae, two pairs of foot jaws by which it captures its prey, and four or five pairs of bristled feet for swimming.
Young anglers catch them in considerable numbers by means of rod and line; but the professional fisherman, taking advantage of the fact that sand smelts swim in shoals, captures them in large, round, shallow nets.
His fleet of canoes[79] also had been strengthened by the captures he had made after the battle of Waiorua, so that he had ample accommodation for the three hundred and forty men who comprised his expeditionary force.
But comparatively few captures were made, as the pas were deserted immediately the inhabitants scented the danger.
At night the coyote captures poultry from the roost, provided the door of the henhouse is left open.
The coyote captures them by hiding behind clumps of weeds or bunches of grass at some distance from the burrows.
To make rules as to captures on land & water" d^o d^o.
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
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