I then sent messages to the commandants of militia regiments near the railway line, requesting them to call out their men at once in anticipation of an order from the governor to proceed to Sandusky.
The muskets and the cannon were physical engines of power that everybody could see, and everybody knew that the commandants of department and district could use them if need be.
The military commandants shall regulate themselves according to the general instructions in conformity with this plan, which shall be transmitted to them.
Il faut remarquer que les Puissances neutres peuvent etre aussi dans le cas de donner des instructions a leurs autorites, specialement aux commandants des convois, comme on l'a vu plus haut.
In turn the commandants of companies, acting as officers of the day, have general charge of the military and police duties.
The Intendants of Provinces, the Military Commandants are at their posts, on the appointed 8th of May: but in no Parlement, if not in the single one of Douai, can these new Edicts get registered.
Alexander had placed Persian satraps over most of the provinces, attaching to them Greek or Macedonian commandants as checks.
The names of any of the other commandants are not mentioned in it at all.
If it was circulated, it was done by the other commandants against the agreement.
Defeats of individual Roman divisions must have taken place in various cases; we learn only that one of the commandants of the guard, Victorinus, fell before the enemy, and the ranks of the Roman armies were sorely thinned.
General and I have renewed the necessary orders on this subject so that the commandants shall conform to them.
It is true that the commandants of the upper country posts have relaxed in the sending of the declarations made or to be made by the voyageurs as to the quantity and quality of the bundles of beaver they take down to Montreal.
Claims from South Carolina, from Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and from Creek Indians, were presented to the commandants of different posts.
We have now to record the appointment of a new governor for Montreal, left officially vacant since de Maisonneuve's departure, three and a half years ago, although several commandants had represented the Seigneurs.
The rest were eithercommandants of forts or storekeepers.
No doubt he had been again laying it impartially about the shoulders of the several commandants of division.
Entire regiments of infantry, hussars, and artillery had been won over to this scheme, the commandants never even dreaming what was going on about them.
The commandants of battalion, stationed in the salon called the grand cabinet, and which led to the Queen's bedchamber, were ordered to keep the door of it always open, in order that they might have their eyes upon the royal family.
The Queen preserved the calmest demeanour; the commandants of the guard surrounded and encouraged her; they conducted themselves promptly and discreetly.
According to the compact between the Emperor and the Elector, the official oath of military governors must also conform to this formula, and the commandants of fortresses be taken into the service of the Emperor and the empire.
To him have thecommandants of the fortresses and the soldiers sworn allegiance; the Emperor protects him, and would esteem it an act of rebellion against imperial majesty itself if I were to depose Schwarzenberg from office.
A few commandants have done so, but Kracht, Rochow, and Goldacker have refused, declaring that they would rather blow their fortresses up than swear fealty to the Elector.
What noise was that just now in the antechamber, while the commandants were in my cabinet?
The door of the cabinet is violently torn open, and in rush the Commandants von Kracht and von Rochow, followed by the captains of their regiments.
Go and show them to your men, and order them to follow these commandants to the cathedral square, and there distribute the money among them.
As to binding the officers and commandants by oath to their duty," continued the count slowly, "I shall but require a token of their disposition to fulfill existing engagements.
Only carry out Frederick William's order, summon the commandants of the forts here to Berlin, and demand of them their oath of allegiance to the Elector.
Hereupon I forthwith had the commandant of Berlin, Colonel von Kracht, arrested, and would have proceeded in like manner against the Commandants von Rochow and von Goldacker, but the traitors got wind of my intentions.
Your excellency, the Commandants von Rochow, von Kracht, and Colonel von Goldacker request an audience.
We shall have a score to settle with the Commandants when the War is over," he added.
The commandants informed us that there were many Boers out in the hills to whom information had been sent of the surrender, and who would come in the following morning and give up their rifles.
The commandants themselves knew nothing about their men, their names or other details, but left all that to the Field Cornets.
It appeared that the Commandants had persuaded their men that the Proclamations as to surrender, published at this time, were only decoys, and that any man surrendering would be shot.
During the afternoon the commandants were received by General Hunter at his quarters in the town, where they drank coffee, and, with the assistance of an interpreter, made the polite and cautious remarks usual on such occasions.
It was known that the Commandants had been summoned by De Wet to a conference in the North, and it was intended to attack the local commandos (believed to be at Jagersfontein) during their absence.
The local commandos, under Commandants Badenhorst, Jacobs and Erasmus, had been having things very much their own way in this district; Boshof itself was garrisoned by the Scottish Rifles Militia, but they had practically no mounted troops.
Yet he did not wish the commandants in the citadels and the captains in charge of the garrisons throughout the country to be under any authority but his own.
So it was that Cyrus called a council and spoke as follows: "Gentlemen and friends of mine, you are aware that we have garrisons and commandants in the cities we conquered, stationed there at the time.
The pale yellow light of the oil lamp on the Commandants desk fell on the military faces, figures and trappings of the men in the room.
I saw an order instructing the military commandants throughout Germany to warn the Poles, whose discontent with the food conditions in Germany made them desire to return home, that conditions in Poland were much worse.
Mounted officers, colonels, and camp commandants who were privileged to keep horses, trotted by.
Later on an order came out that campcommandants should wear coloured cap-bands and coloured tabs on their coat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commandants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
