At Yangsun were a number of Chasseurs d’Afrique, whose regiment was quartered in the vicinity.
The Zouaves andChasseurs d’Afrique, particularly, were excellent.
A regiment of Chasseurs of Vincennes had just entered silently into the garden of the Mairie, and, while waiting for orders, were loading their guns.
By the side of the cannon some Chasseursde Vincennes were loading their guns and biting their cartridges.
A quarter of an hour afterwards, accompanied by 250 Chasseurs de Vincennes, he took possession of the ministry of the Interior, startled M.
A regiment of Chasseurs came up at the double, and put an end to the conflict with bayonet thrusts.
The Chasseurs de Vincennes, who marched in a double line on each side of the prisoners, cast at them looks of hatred.
Shortly afterwards arrived two of those little chariots which are called "forty sons," and two fiacres, escorted by two detachments of the Republican Guard and of the Chasseurs de Vincennes, and by several squads of police.
At the Legislative Palace the Chasseurs de Vincennes, and a battalion of the 15th Light Infantry; in the Champs Elysées infantry and cavalry; in the Avenue Marigny artillery.
Some Chasseurs de Vincennes emerged from the corner of the boulevard.
Towards four o'clock a regiment of Chasseurs de Vincennes arrived in the courtyard with their platters, and began to eat, singing, with loud bursts of merriment.
The National Guards were at once disarmed, almost forcibly, by theChasseurs de Vincennes.
Representative Michel Renaud of the Basses-Pyrénees, found several of his compatriots of the Basque country amongst the Chasseurs de Vincennes who occupied the courtyard.
The Assembly, having resisted the sergeant, he sent an officer, the temporary commander of the sixth battalion of the Chasseurs de Vincennes.
A captain of the Chasseurs d'Afrique had just been ordered from Sidi-bel-Abbés to Touggourt, and was leaving at once with his wife.
There was the sensationally splendid costume of the Spahis; scarlet cloak and full trousers; the beautiful pale blue of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, and a plainer uniform which Max guessed to be that of the Foreign Legion.
Immediately the General commanded General Bosquet to get the Third Division under arms, and sent artillery and 200 Chasseurs d'Afrique to assist us.
His little escort of Chasseurs contrasted with the English Hussars who followed Sir William Codrington.
The news spread through the camps, and the races which the Chasseurs d'Afrique had got up in excellent style were much shorn of their attractions by the opportunity afforded of meeting our enemies upon neutral ground.
Three battalions of the Chasseurs d'Orleans rushed by, the light of battle on their faces.
Even the Zouaves yielded the prize of effectiveness to the Chasseurs Indigènes, or French Sepoys.
The General afterwards rode along the lines of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, and of the two regiments of dragoons, which went past at a quick trot.
The Turks could see nothing in the men, except that they thought the Zouaves and Chasseurs Indigènes dashing-looking fellows; but they considered their officers superior to ours in all but exact discipline.
The Grenadiers looked martial and imposing in their long blue coats and lofty bearskins; the Chasseurs smart and active in their excellent and service-like costume; the Zouaves, as usual, picturesque and effective.
They were followed by a battalion ofChasseurs Indigènes.
The Chasseurs d'Afrique and a French rocket troop accompanied the reconnaissance, and rendered excellent service during the day.
The first news of the attack was brought about daybreak by some Chasseurs forming part of a patrol who fell into an ambuscade and escaped, while their comrades were taken prisoners.
On his return he received her, and treated her with remarkable kindness, gave her an escort of the chasseurs of the guard, and dismissed her happy and satisfied.
Several chasseurs of the escort were wounded, but they at last succeeded in extricating his Majesty.
He was chief of squadron in the chasseurs of the Consular Guard, and at the immortal battle of Marengo shared all the dangers of the one who took so much pleasure in calling him his son.
But, if we may credit the account which purports to have been given by Henry of Anjou, there was an incident which he failed to mention.
A narrow peninsula, protected on the one side by a sheet of water and on the other by marshes, offered a tempting site, and was first occupied.
Near the close of July a boy of barely ten years, as he lay on his death-bed, said to his weeping parents: "Why do you weep thus at seeing me die of hunger?
In the sight of an immense throng, the nuptial ceremony was performed by the Cardinal of Bourbon, Henry's uncle, according to the form which had been previously agreed upon.
Three or four days will be spent in festivities, masks, and mock combats.
Captured at Saint-Blaise by the 1st Battalion of Chasseurs a Pied (riflemen) and exhibited at a window of the Ministry of War.
Poterloo comes from Souchez, and now that the Chasseurs have at last retaken it, he wants to see again the village where he lived happily in the days when he was only a man.
At the battle of Sedan he led the brigade of Chasseurs d'Afrique in the heroic charge of General Margueritte's cavalry division, which extorted the admiration of the old king of Prussia.
There was a short conference between the Colonel and our staff-officer, and then we annexed a Captain ofChasseurs and spun away again.
We were looking down at the spot to which the night-caravans of the Chasseurs Alpins descend to distribute supplies to the fighting line.
Everywhere about us swarmed the little "chasseurs Alpins" in blue Tam o'Shanters and leather gaiters.
Chasseurs and Zouaves, Cuirassiers, Dragoons, and infantry from the Loire and the Rhone struggled desperately, contesting every step, and confident of ultimate victory.
I was dining with my cousin Madame Sablé, whose husband is colonel of the 76th Chasseurs at Limoges.
The chasseurs were serving as escort to a general officer from the garrison at Nantes, who was on a tour of inspection of the various detachments.
The order was executed with the rapidity of thought, and the general, followed by his chasseurs and the seventeen grenadiers behind them, plunged into the bed of the river.
Order my chasseurs to mount; two days' rations, and twenty-five cartridges to each man; and hold yourself ready to follow me at the first signal I give you.
In a moment the seventeen chasseurshad each a grenadier behind him.
Two other chasseurs rode to the left and right with special orders to watch him carefully.
When they reached the ford they found the two chasseurs who had been sent in advance, awaiting them, pistol in hand.
Guérin had hardly taken his place among his comrades when the two leading chasseurs of the advanced-guard came upon the edge of the marsh.
Grenadiers andchasseurs ran pell-mell along both banks, getting farther and farther from Jean Oullier, and riddling the goatskin, after which Pataud was still swimming, with their balls.
The two chasseurs advanced, and seeing the narrow causeway built on piles they crossed it and began the ascent, coming nearer and nearer to the cart, and, consequently, to Jean Oullier.
At every public-house door, a fewChasseurs d'Afrique had tied their small light horses, all alike and beautifully formed like deer.
When the latter returned to Rheims, a patrol of French mounted Chasseurshad already entered the town by the suburb of St. Anne.
The next morning, at about 6 o'clock, the French troops, with the 6th mounted Chasseurs at their head, entered Rheims by the Rue de Vesle.
The Cossacks and chasseurs bent forward in their saddles, their cartridge-boxes dangling behind them, galloping before us in full flight.
To do this was fearfully dangerous, for their regiments of hussars and chasseurs advanced in good order to charge.
The brave commander of thechasseurs will see to it that father comes safely home,' said Gené.
To the commander of the chasseurs she quickly made known her situation.
Early in the afternoon a battalion of French chasseurs came galloping into town.
The four battalions of chasseurs whom the king had left behind in his flight, quartered here and there about the town, disbanded.
There was a squadron of the 5th chasseurs a cheval here for a month.
In a cavalry affair, the next morning, a regiment of chasseurs were charged, and heavily cut up by some squadrons of the Cossack Guard, and nothing but the immediate support of an infantry corps saved them from destruction.
Colonel La Coste took his stand on the right of the firing party, some half dozen paces from the subordinate officer that commanded it; and, on either side, the chasseurs and peasantry formed a line of lookers-on.
The captain of the chasseurs announced the failure of the expedition in terms that showed how deeply its want of success had mortified him.
The chasseurs were halted, and the light infantry ordered forward to remove the barrier by which the further-progress of the column had been thus arrested.
To a stern demand to surrender, the voltigeurs replied by throwing down their arms, while the chasseurs hastily dismounted, and endeavoured to obtain protection behind their horses, from a constant and deadly fusilade.
He waived his hand--the chasseurs resumed a place at either side--and one took my bridle in his hand.
Ten minutes since it had been strewn with dead chasseurs and sharpshooters, dressed in their showy uniforms, and fully and effectively equipped.
At the request of Bezobrazoff, Admiral Alexeieff sent a force of chasseurs to Shakhedze (on the Yalu) and kept a body of troops in Feng-wang-cheng.
The thing that he had to do, first of all, and that he was fully empowered to do, was to recall our force from Feng-wang-cheng and the company of chasseurs from the Yalu.
Yesterday I reported again your ideas with regard to the reinforcement of the garrison and also with regard to the artels (chasseurs or artillery?
The heights in the upper part of the valley were held by the Chasseurs Alpins; and they desired to take both towns.
In connection with this campaign in the mountains the achievement of a company of French Chasseurs serves to illustrate, the heroic and hardy character of these men.
Our gallant allies, the French, had witnessed the heroic deeds of the Light Brigade, and now the Chasseurs went at the enemy in a most dashing manner to help to rescue the remains of such a noble band.
What are known as the Chasseurs d'Afrique are perhaps the best of all French horse soldiers.
The Chasseurs Alpins--that is, the French soldiers who operate in the Alps--wear ski.
And it was all because of those seventy-five French chasseurs who held the bridge.
A howl of German glee was heard by the seventy-five chasseurs crouching behind their barricades.
I asked him about the seventy-five chasseurs at the bridge.
It was the only way into Gerbéviller, so the chasseurs determined to fight.
The total casualties of the chasseurs were three killed, three captured, and six wounded.
The chasseurs were first posted across the river on the road to Lunéville, and when the Germans approached, early in the morning, they fell back to the bridge, which they had barricaded the night before.
The Captain of the chasseurs sent one man with a mitrailleuse to hold the bridge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chasseurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
